FARESHAREGO

FareShare Go is a free service that provides good quality end of day surplus food for charities and community groups to top up their existing food supply and help them to reduce their costs.

FareShare Go connects charities and community groups with local supermarkets and restaurants to access this endof-day surplus food during a designated collection slot each week. Our current food partners include Tesco, ASDA, Waitrose & Partners, Booker, Nando’s and KFC.

The food offered through FareShare Go varies; it depends on what surplus food is available at a particular outlet each day.

Nando’s and KFC donate cooked chicken, whereas supermarket collections often include bread, eggs, fresh fruit and vegetables, and sometimes chilled items such as meat and ready meals.

It will typically be ‘yellow sticker food’; the food will always be within the use by date and is perfectly good to eat but can no longer be sold.

Charities can sign up to either FareShare Go or FareShare Sussex & Surrey membership or both at the same time. The two schemes complement each other to help groups source as much surplus food as possible for vulnerable people in the community.

FARESHARE GO IN NUMBERS:

126 COMMUNITY GROUPS AND CHARITIES

108 UNIQUE FARESHAREGO COMMUNITY GROUPS

HELPING AN ADDITIONAL 15,000 VULNERABLE PEOPLE A WEEK

PROVIDING 1.24 MILLION MEALS

THROUGH 520 TONNES OF SURPLUS FOOD

“WE ONLY STARTED A YEAR AGO WITH FARESHARE GO, WE PICK UP FROM ABOUT 4 OR 5 SUPERMARKETS, THE BREAD IS LOVELY AND WE PUT IT OUT ON THE FREE TABLE. WE’VE STARTED PICKING UP FROM KFC RECENTLY, WE’RE GETTING 30 KILOS AT A TIME. IT’S UP AND DOWN, BUT WE USUALLY GET LOTS OF BREAD AND LOTS OF VEG. IT’S THINGS THAT PEOPLE DON’T JUST NEED BUT IT’S NICE FOR THEM TO HAVE, LIKEVSNACKS AND DRINKS. OF COURSE, IT’S A LOT CHEAPER HERE, WE SAY TO PEOPLE - COME HERE FIRST, AND THEN YOU’VE GOT MONEY TO GO TO THE SUPERMARKET TO BUY YOUR ESSENTIALS WITH.”

SUE MORRIS, TRUSTEE OF SEASIDE COMMUNITY HUB, EASTBOURNE

WHAT’S NEXT IN 2023?

Sustainability

2023 will see us add another electric van to our fleet and decommission another diesel van. We are committed to having the majority of our fleet electric by 2023 and the whole fleet as technology and battery range enables.

As part of our Green Team long term aims we plan to add solar panels to our warehouse in Brighton and to reduce paper consumption by using a travel planning app on our delivery routes.

Logistics

We are seeking to add new vehicles to our fleet with one aim being to improve our frozen logistic capacity. This will enable us to accept and move the increased volume of food around the region, and to safely move our frozen meals from the production kitchen to our freezers in our Guildford and Brighton depots.

Employability

Building on the success of our current FareShare Futures programme and our learning in this field, our Brighton depot will shift to provide an employability offer to those on probation and on day release from open prison.

We aim to launch our employability programme in our Surrey production kitchen in 2024, helping 18-25 year old NEETs (not in Education, Employment or Training) gain catering work experience.

Surrey

We will open a new depot and production kitchen in Surrey in 2023, with the aim of supporting 30 new charity partners in our first year.

The new Surrey warehouse will enable us to significantly increase our food volumes’ allowing us to deliver between 150 - 200 tons of in date surplus food a month by the end of 2024.

Volunteers

We are launching a recruitment drive to recruit new volunteers to support our work in the production kitchen and new depot in Surrey - we need eight volunteers a day in the kitchen and four a day in the new warehouse.

Always striving to help empower our volunteers - last year we provided accredited training for 74 volunteers. This year we aim to support 100 through formal training in Food Safety Health & Safety, and manual handling.

Charity Partners

With the increase in food coming into our depots we aim to increase our charity partners from 150 to 200 across the three counties by the end of 2024.

We hope to build stronger relationships with our charity partners being more supportive and collaborative with the introduction of our new Community Partnership Coordinator.

We will support a new mobile pantry scheme in Surrey in c.15 locations,v helping to get food to those in poverty in rural areas.

Food

With the help of our new Regional Food Sourcing Manager we aim to double the amount of surplus food coming from our local food suppliers by the end of the year.

We aim to maintain the nutritional value of the food we supply - 53% of the food we provide is fresh fruit, vegetables and dairy - we’re passionate about giving the people we serve the best possible health and well being impact.

We aim to provide 3.5 million meals next year to 200 charity partners; helping 25,000 vulnerable people each and every week.

Diversity

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We have set up a new People & Culture group to ensure we are as inclusive and diverse as the communities we serve. We have set targets within our recruitment for both paid and voluntary colleagues to ensure we create a diverse workforce.

“AS A TRUST WE DISTRIBUTE SMALL POTS OF MONEY WHERE WE THINK THEY CAN MAKE THE MOST IMPACT AND SUPPORT PEOPLE ON THE FRONT LINE OF THE CURRENT COST OF LIVING CRISIS. BY GIVING TO FARESHARE SUSSEX & SURREY, FOR THE WORK THEY DO EXCLUSIVELY ACROSS SUSSEX, WE KNOW THAT OUR MONEY HAS A HUGE IMPACT AT WHAT IS A CHALLENGING TIME FOR MANY.”