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• At the centre of urgent issues facing the UK – food waste and food poverty.
• Providing quality, surplus food to the disadvantaged and vulnerable.
• Operating in 13 locations across the UK since 2004.
• Every day an average of 29,000 people benefit from the service FareShare provides.
• In 2009/10 the food redistribution by FareShare contributed towards more than 6.7 million meals.
• The redistribution of food minimises surplus food going to landfill and helped businesses reduce C02 emissions by 13,950 tonnes in 2008/09.

What Fareshare does

Crest and Fareshare

• Crest Cooperative, Llandudno Junction launched the first FareShare scheme in Wales in 2010.
• Crest and FareShare have worked with retail distribution centres, wholesalers and manufacturers to help feed hundreds of disadvantaged and vulnerable people with high quality food.

How has FareShare North Wales benefited others?

Touchstones 12, Colwyn Bay – a residential rehabilitation centre for people with alcohol or drug addiction

“I am always touched with someone shows the hand of friendship to our Clients and Fareshare North Wales is no exception.  It still seems unreal when we receive a phonecall each week telling us what produce there is and [asking] what would we like?”

“Our ethos is to provide the clients with nutritional meals working to a budget, something the will need to do when moving onto independent living.”

“FareShare North Wales not only provide ingredients to do this but luxuries as well.  Such as fresh orange juice and tins of sweets.  We are able to make savings on our weekly food shopping as we also receive coffee and tea, with an average of 18 clients these two commodities alone enable us to make a saving and as an example we use this to purchase more fresh fruit and vegetables and more tender cuts of meat.”
Chris Goodwin
Product Manager, Touchstones 12

Examples ‘waste’ i.e. no commercial value

• Overstocks
• Short coded
• Depot rejections
• Post promotional date on packaging
• Seasonal stocks
• Deleted lines
• Damages
• Production trials
• Minimum production runs
• QA rejections eg quality/weights/visual
• Surplus raw materials of current and deleted lines
• Retailers rejections
• Manufacturing mistakes
• Incorrect forecasts

A pallet of food contributes to 1400 meals

Products we can accept

• Fresh fruit and vegetables
• Fresh meat
• Fresh fish
• Dairy (milk, butter, cheese and yoghurts)
• Ambient (rice, pasta, pulses, tins, packets)
• Juices (water, fruit juice, smoothies)
• Frozen and chilled food

Shelf life and quantity are our only limiting criteria

For further information or to contribute to FareShare North Wales contact Andrew Sturgess, FareShare Co-ordinator on 01492 596783 or email faresharenorthwales@crestcooperative.co.uk.