The Felix Project and FareShare
The Felix Project and FareShare have joined forces to become the UK’s leading food redistribution charity.
The charity rescues good-to-eat surplus food that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste from across the food industry. That food is repurposed and shared to support more than 8,000 community organisations across the UK. The charity manages seven depots and works with 16 network partners to operate a total of 35 depots across the UK. In 2025, they collectively redistributed 148 million meals to those in need.
Food Poverty in the UK
Food insecurity in the UK is a reality for over 8 million people in the UK who struggle to afford food.
According to Wrap, the equivalent of 1.3bn meals of good-to-eat surplus food is wasted every year, and The Felix Project and FareShare aim to tackle these issues by working with their food partners to identify quality surplus food within the supply chain and redistribute it to their network of frontline charities and community groups, who turn this food into meals to support vulnerable people.
Their network of charities includes homeless shelters, women’s refuges and hospices, which not only supply food services and parcels, but also care services that help support vulnerable people with other concerns, such as housing and financial struggles or establishments such as school breakfast clubs and after-school groups.
Last year, The Felix Project and FareShare saved almost 66,000 tonnes of food surplus and redistributed it to frontline charities and community projects in some of the most deprived parts of the UK. This food supported over 1.5 million people. Your surplus food could offer a lifeline, both in terms of nutrition and freeing up charities' stretched budgets, enabling them to invest in other vital areas of their work. As costs in the UK continue to increase for families on the breadline, the need has never been higher.
Working with the Food Industry
The Felix Project and Fareshare work with more than 700 companies across the supply chain – from farmers to hauliers, wholesalers to supermarkets, and brands big and small, including independent producers. They are set up to take both large volumes of surplus food as well as small quantities from across the food and drink industry. The Felix Project and Fareshare can accept all kinds of fresh, frozen, ambient and chilled food and drink, including retailer-branded foods in all forms, from bulk ingredients to unfinished products to labelling errors and damages.
The Felix Project and Fareshare operate to exactly the same standards as the food and drink industry, their food management systems ensure full compliance and traceability, with their Regional Centres independently audited every year. As the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, their scale means they can flex to your requirement as well as help meet your CSR responsibilities, UK Food and Drink Pact objectives and WRAP/IGD Food Waste Reduction Roadmap commitments.