FareShare Greater Manchester is a leading member of the UK’s largest food charity, FareShare.

We are one of a network of 21 similar centres located across the country. As a community of independent franchise charities, we are all fighting the same issues: hunger and food waste. Millions of tonnes of good food is disposed of by the UK Food Industry every year. At the same time, millions of people are struggling to afford to eat.

Last year, here in Greater Manchester, we rescued 2,000 tonnes of perfectly good-to-eat surplus food from going to waste in the food industry and redistributed it to more than 290 charities and community organisations across our city and beyond. In real terms, that is the equivalent of 4.72 million meals which were enjoyed by people who really needed them instead of being wasted.

The organisations we support sign up to weekly food orders from our warehouse which they either collect themselves or rely on us to deliver out to them. Without our fleet of vans, we would not be able to deliver that food out to the 60 groups each week who can’t collect from us. However, our van fleet is wearing out, one of them is 17 years old, another has done 235,000 miles, so there’s an urgent need to replace them.

FareShare Greater Manchester is a lifeline to many organisations who are serving their local communities with food from school breakfast clubs to elderly luncheon groups, homeless shelters to community pantries and food banks. With your support, we can improve our fleet of vehicles and continue to offer this much needed service to those who need it most.