Campaign of the Year
The food and drink community celebrated success on 19 September 2019 as the winners of the Food and Drink Federation Awards were announced.
FareShare – Feed People First
Every year, 270,000 tonnes of food from the UK supply chain becomes surplus.
Only 6% of the food
is diverted from waste to charities, helping to feed the 8.4 million people in
the UK who are struggling to
afford to eat.
FareShare believes the first step to achieving a level playing field is to
redistribute surplus food to
charities. To make this attractive to businesses, who often turn this surplus
into energy or animal feed,
you must tackle the costs. It costs an estimated £150 per tonne to separate,
store and transport edible
surplus food to charity.
As part of its wider lobbying work between April and May 2018, FareShare ran a
campaign called
Feed People First. The aim of the campaign was to secure 10,000 signatures to a
petition calling on the
Government to introduce a financial incentive to food businesses to make the
cost of charitable food
redistribution equal to that of sending food, which is still good to eat, to
waste. The campaign was also
designed to raise awareness of FareShare's ambition to Feed People First
amongst
the general public
and turn them into FareShare advocates.
More information
2019 awards winners