It has been a few months in the offering but this weekend we visited the Fareshare warehouse to collect a vast majority of our food rations for the expedition. This is food that otherwise would have ended up in the land fill site due to damaged packaging or wrongly printed sell-by dates. It must be stressed that this food was surplus to the requirements of Bristol disadvantaged community.

This is an amazing charity, something anyone in the food industry should support and be aware of. Here’s a summary:

• FareShare is a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty
• FareShare is at the centre of two of the most urgent issues that face the UK - food poverty and food waste
• The charity addresses these issues in three ways:

Providing quality food - surplus ‘fit for purpose’ product from the food and drink industry - to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community

Providing training and education around the essential life skills of safe food preparation and nutrition, and warehouse employability training through FareShare’s Eat Well Live Well programme

Promoting the message that ‘No Good Food Should Be Wasted’

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