vulnerable people in the community.
Food poverty has long been an issue in the UK. There are many different reasons why people find themselves suffering food poverty, not least poverty itself. It is estimated that 4 million people in the UK cannot afford a healthy diet, with 1 in 7 people over 65 at serious risk of malnourishment.
FareShare is a national charity which has a network of over 100 retailers and regular wholesalers who regularly donate surplus fresh and frozen food.
The food is either collected in refrigerated vans or delivered direct to a FareShare depot where it is sorted and distributed to hostels and day centres according to their needs.
In the past four months we have donated a total of 30 pallets; this equates to over 47,520 meals!
Donating food is just one of the ways we can help FareShare and in 2007 we will be looking into other projects:
- Providing training on diets and nutrition
- An AFC day in a FareShare Warehouse
- Volunteers for feeding of the homeless at Christmas
Each year we sponsor the ‘Wear it Pink’ day for the Breast Cancer Campaign so they can continue researching the cure for breast cancer.
Everyone comes into the office dressed in Pink, see some of the team below.
Employees at The Authentic Food Company can buy meal boxes and all of this money is donated to local causes.
One of these was Birtenshaw Hall School.
Birtenshaw Hall is a small, non-maintained day/residential school and registered Children’s Home for children and young people with severe and complex or profound and multiple learning difficulties in conjunction with either physical disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder or severe medical conditions.
The staff are greatly experienced in working with children and young people with degenerative and exceptional conditions, including life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses.
Everyone in the school was taken on a special outing to an adventure and activity farm in Cheshire. Some of the funds were also used to buy special equipment.