Who We Work With - FareShare North East

FareShare North East has been developing partnerships with the food industry, nationally and locally, for more than a decade.

Today, through our own efforts and working with FareShare UK, we work closely with over 1000 food businesses, both large and small, national and local, across the UK. We work closely with farmers, hauliers, hospitality chains, supermarkets and independent producers in the mission to fight hunger and tackle food waste in the North East.

Find out more about how your organisation can give regular surplus food donations to FareShare North East

Here are just some of the food businesses we work with:

ASDA

In 2013, Asda entered into an innovative partnership with its fresh food suppliers and FareShare, to ensure surplus food benefits charities and community projects across the UK.

Tesco

FareShare has worked with Tesco since 2012 to help alleviate poverty in the UK by ensuring surplus food within its supply chain is used to feed people and doesn’t end up as waste. Tesco offered great support during 2020, announcing a £15 million package of food to FareShare, Trussell Trust and independent food banks, which equates to 4.5 million meals being received into the FareShare network.

Co-op

FareShare works with Co-op’s Distribution Centres (DCs), ensuring edible chilled and ambient surplus food is fed to people in need instead of going to waste. In 2020, the Co-op supported FareShare during the Coronavirus crisis by donating food worth £1.5 million to feed those at risk of hunger during challenging times.

John Lewis Partnership (John Lewis and Partners and Waitrose and Partners)

FareShare has partnered with John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners to host Community Festive Feasts during the Christmas period as well partnering with FareShare in 2020 to raise awareness and funds through their ‘Give a Little Love’ campaign with Home-Start. John Lewis and Waitrose are aiming to raise £4m for FareShare and Home-Start and £1m will also be donated by shop Partners to charities who support families in their local communities. These donations have provided food, comfort, emotional support and advice to at least 100,000 families in need.

Sainsburys

Sainsbury’s are long-term partners of FareShare as they co-founded the organisation in 1994 with homelessness charity, Crisis. Having supported the launch of FareShare as an independent charity in 2004, they have regularly and consistently delivered surplus food to FareShare.

Allied Bakeries

Allied Bakeries first partnered with FareShare in February 2016, to link up all their bakeries with their nearest FareShare Regional Centre, so that their surplus bread could benefit vulnerable people in their local community.

AMT Fruit

AMT Fruit have been working with FareShare since October 2015 to ensure that any citrus fruit which would otherwise to go waste in their operation is used to benefit people in need.

Birds Eye

FareShare and Birds Eye began working together in 2015, to ensure that when the frozen food company has products that they can’t sell as originally intended, it can be used to benefit vulnerable people rather than going to waste.

Coca Cola

Coca-Cola and FareShare began working together in January 2014 to ensure that their surplus drinks are put to the best possible use and partnered for a Christmas on-pack promotion in 2016.

Faccenda

Having understood how FareShare works and the types of food we require, Faccenda agreed to supply FareShare West Midlands with chicken from 2015, to ensure a reliable and regular source of protein-based products.

General Mills

Since 2013, General Mills put a systematic process in place which ensures that when food cannot find a commercial outlet, it is redistributed to FareShare on a monthly basis.

Gerber

By donating just 0.04% of their production to FareShare and managing it responsibly, Gerber have managed to provide juice to disadvantaged people 1.2 million times a year.

Greggs

FareShare has been working with Greggs since 2005 to ensure good quality surplus bread isn’t wasted.

Innocent

innocent and FareShare began working together in 1999 to ensure that surplus fruit juices and smoothies were distributed to vulnerable people across the UK rather than going to waste.

IPL

IPL and FareShare have been working together since 2011 to provide good quality fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste to FareShare charity members.

Kellogg’s

Kellogg’s has been providing their surplus cereals and snacks to FareShare since 2012 to support charities and community organisations across the UK.

Kerry Foods

Kerry Foods started working with FareShare in November 2015, to redistribute surplus products that couldn’t be sold, so that they can be used to feed vulnerable people.

Mack

In 2013, Mack embedded an industry leading process, whereby surplus fruit and vegetables are diverted to FareShare on a regular basis.

Moy Park

FareShare and Moy Park first started working together in March 2015, so that their surplus poultry products could be used to feed people in need.

Nestlé

In 2005, FareShare and Nestlé developed a process for managing edible surplus that, to this day, still represents a best practice example in the manufacturing sector.

Produce World Group

The Produce World Group started regularly supplying organic carrots and other surplus vegetables to FareShare in 2013.

Thanet Earth

Since 2013, fresh surplus tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers have been making their way to FareShare from the UK’s largest greenhouses at Thanet Earth in Kent.

Fruitful Office

Fruitful Office, the fruit basket delivery service have a long history with FareShare. As part of their strict quality check processes, a certain amount of fruit every week is rejected and, in turn, repackaged and collected by FareShare.

Collectiv Food

In 2019 Collectiv Food started working with FareShare to make sure that any meat products that were surplus to their customer’s requirements but still good to eat ended up on people’s plates.

Best Food Logistics

FareShare works with Best Food Logistics to ensure that any food that might go to waste within their operations is diverted to feed people in need.

Bidfood

FareShare has been working with foodservice wholesaler, Bidfood, since 2016 to redistribute their surplus food to good causes across the UK.

Casual Dining Group

FareShare began working with Casual Dining Group in April 2017. Casual Dining Group (CDG) is one of the largest independent restaurant companies in the UK, operating restaurants such as Café Rouge, La Tasca, Bella Italia and Las Iguanas.

Culina Logistics

In 2017, Culina Logistics began working in partnership with FareShare to incentivise their customers to use their surplus food for social good.

Fowler Welch

Fowler Welch teamed up with FareShare in 2016 to lend their supply chain expertise to FareShare and help distribute surplus food that becomes available at their customer’s manufacturing sites.

Nagel Group

Nagel Group logoBy Nagel Langdons offering the option of sending surplus stock to FareShare, their customers can save on additional costs they would otherwise incur such as return of food, collection costs for food bins, landfill tax and labour to remove packaging.

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