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FareShare Southern Central has been part of the The Prince’s Trust Fairbridge programme works with some of
SCRATCH family of projects for three years and has the hardest to reach young people. Many of the young people
grown tremendously over that time. Surplus food is
donated by local retailers and suppliers, including we see in our centre come from hectic backgrounds and
Tesco, Co-Op, Booker, Brake, Produce World and struggle with day to day living. We are now able to offer them
Addo Food Group. The food is then redistributed to breakfast and lunch every day they are with us. For some this
local projects (known as Community Food Members is their only source of healthy food during the day. By offering
(CFMs)) which include local food banks, hostels,
day centres, night shelters, school breakfast clubs, them breakfast before they take part in sessions we have
older persons lunch clubs and many other noticed a real difference in their attention span and their ability
organisations working with vulnerable people and
those facing food poverty. to learn whilst they are with us. Without the support of
FareShare we simply would not be able to offer this service to
our young people as our budget does not cover this cost.
“We are very pleased with FareShare, it has really widened the
variety and creativity of what we are able to offer the children
that use our service. We have always stuck to very similar
foods that we offer our children but with the addition of our
Fareshare orders we have been able to offer a lot more variety.
Also challenging us to create new ideas with the foods to
enable us to use up what we receive with either what we serve
the children or what we use to do cooking activities with the
children. Children are excited each week to see what we
receive and it has encouraged some of them to taste new
foods that they may not usually try at home. What a fab idea to
minimize wastage. 115 Club
147 CFMs received 496 tonnes of 1.18 million
surplus food during food was meals were
the year redistributed created
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