We’ve recently posted a few articles that have looked at the charity work we’re doing with our Do Some Good campaign. However, I wanted to look a little closer at the great work each of our chosen charities for 2017 is doing in a little more detail. And this month I’m focusing on FareShare, the charity setup to fight hunger and tackle food waste in the UK. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Voices of the Hungry project, in 2016 there were around 8.4 million people in the UK, that’s the equivalent of the entire population of London, who are struggling to afford to eat. In 2016 WRAP also published their ‘Quantification of food surplus, waste and related materials in the grocery supply chain’, which highlighted that at least 270,000 tonnes of surplus food from the UK food and drink industry could be redistributed to feed people each year. That is enough for a staggering 650 million meals!
