Wednesday - July 5, 2023 9:43 am     

Look inside our production kitchen at Loxley House to see what our volunteer kitchen assistants do to help transform surplus into meals!

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Tuesday - July 4, 2023 1:31 pm     

ATTFE College provides adult and further education opportunities to learners across Nottinghamshire. They set up the 'Let's All Eat' project to support those facing food insecurity.

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Monday - July 3, 2023 12:29 pm     

Aston Villa Foundation is the charitable arm of the Aston Villa Football Club. With the help of 80 staff members, they provide programmes to Birmingham residents of all ages

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Monday - July 3, 2023 10:12 am     

In the centre of Loughborough, the 'cupboard in the corner' at King's Church is bustling with activity...

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Thursday - June 29, 2023 2:21 pm     

Fusion21 Foundation has provided a vital grant of £30,000 to FareShare Midlands, to enable the charity to extend the reach and impact of the innovative Community Meals Service across the Midlands. This important next step will allow the volume of surplus food accepted to grow, the number of meals produced to increase and the amount of charitable and not-for-profit organisations in receipt of the meals to also rise.

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Wednesday - June 28, 2023 6:20 pm     

If Sarah Kaul was in any doubt about locals needing the Community Grocery, the queues around the block swiftly dealt with that.
“My husband and I lead the local church and we started providing breakfast parcels for local people during Covid, but after life began to return to a sort of normal, we realised that the need hadn’t gone away at all.”

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Wednesday - June 21, 2023 4:06 pm     

​Our Elevate Programme stops older people from falling out of work for good. Hear from those who have been on the course.

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Friday - June 16, 2023 10:55 am     

"Demand for the services and food that FareShare supplies is at unprecedented levels, higher than we have ever seen before. We have hundreds of organisations on the waiting list to join our service, but the reality is the food just isn't there."

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Tuesday - June 6, 2023 10:17 am     

"I really see the benefit of FareShare’s help across communities and it makes me proud to be a volunteer."

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| Case Studies | FareShare Midlands - Fighting hunger, tackling food waste in the UK

Case Studies

Friday - June 17, 2022 12:57 pm     

Mansfield District Council originally started working with FareShare Midlands through the Nottinghamshire County Council Childhood Obesity Trailblazer programme and Family Action. They now run seven FOOD (Food On Our Doorsteps) clubs in Mansfield. The first club opened in August 2020 during the COVID19 pandemic, so the schemes have been running for almost two years. They have built up slowly, gradually opening additional clubs using FareShare food.

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Friday - June 10, 2022 3:39 pm     

In 2022 the Marlpool URC is celebrating its 200th anniversary as a church. It is part of the umbrella organisation the United Reformed Church which has always had a strong social ethos in terms of demonstrating faith through action, with a focus particularly on helping those who are in need. The Church has a long history of supporting vulnerable people over the years, including through World Wars and different tragedies that the residents of the Country have faced.

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Tuesday - May 24, 2022 4:49 pm     

After originally operating as an outreach project through Telford Food Share in 2020, Newport Food Save and Share established themselves as an independent organisation in February 2021. Since then, they have seen the number of people they support with food grow from around 30 to 300.

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Friday - April 8, 2022 2:19 pm     

Coping on your own in 2022, with rocketing fuel bills and rising cost of living, is hard enough. Add four young children into the mix in your new role as a single dad, and it all becomes that much tougher to make ends meet. Read about James Henman and Gussie's Kitchen.

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Tuesday - March 8, 2022 12:05 pm     

Founded in 2014 as a way for mothers to have a chat over a drink, Women Empowering Women has evolved into a cornerstone of the local community in Bordesley Green

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Monday - February 14, 2022 6:50 pm     

Penny Taylor is the Lead for Education and Training at Newark College (which is part of Lincoln College). The College offers further education and technical training, specialising in hands-on trades and crafts. There is a large construction site with industries including electrical and furniture-making, and a new plumbing centre has recently been built, where 48 learners joined in September. The College also runs traditional courses such as hairdressing, media, sport and public services. In addition, the College has partnered with experts in the aviation industry to launch the IASTI (International Air & Space Training Institute), and this will see a new £12m site built in the local area. For that project they already have 27 learners on board, on one of two pathways: engineering or pilot.

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Friday - February 4, 2022 3:47 pm     

Brushstrokes Community Project is based in Smethwick and is part of the Father Hudson’s Care charity. The project supports local asylum seekers, refugees, families, homeless individuals and people suffering from drug or alcohol addiction. Lucy Clark is Resources Co-ordinator and works with many local organisations, groups and individuals who are part of the Sandwell Borough of Sanctuary (for example Bearwood Action for Refugees). Lucy also works with schools in the area such as St Hubert’s, St Matthew’s, St Philip’s and St John Bosco as part of the Schools of Sanctuary programme.

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Wednesday - December 22, 2021 12:56 pm     

Fulbridge Academy is an award-winning Peterborough primary school with nursery. It is part of a Multi-Academy Trust and supports over 900 children. While the lunch provision is catered for separately, the Academy joined FareShare Midlands in early 2020 to provide food for breakfast and after-school clubs, and food parcels for vulnerable parents.

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Tuesday - October 26, 2021 2:53 pm     

The Sutton on Sea Community Larder is a food bank set up during the outbreak of COVID19. Based on Sutton High Street, the organisation was created for a community facing difficult times involving a great deal of financial and economic hardship. Initially the Community Larder was set up as a food bank, to give out food parcels and offer essential shopping to people who were struggling. It is all about the community coming together to help each other during a period of crisis, through caring, sharing and supporting those in most need.

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