FareShare works with hundreds of organisations across the food industry to obtain their surplus ingredients, using this food to supply our network of charities across the UK.
Here are a selection of delicious, cost effective recipes using surplus food, some basic ingredients, and requiring minimal fuss.
Use the drop-down menus to find the ingredient that you wish to cook with, select your dietary requirement and difficulty level, or try the search box to look through our recipe titles.
Diocese of Leicester Bishop's Lent Appeal 2022 in Support of FareShare Midlands to Fight Hunger, Tackle Waste and Create Opportunities
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More than 8.4 million people in the UK are living in ‘deep poverty’, struggling to afford everyday essentials including food. At the same time over 6.7 million tonnes of food goes to waste every year. In 2021, FareShare Midlands redistributed 6,242 tonnes on food! Not only has this provided 15 million meals, it has also prevented the waste of 10,000 tonnes of embedded CO2e.
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity. Founded in 2008, as a project of the Diocese of Leicester, we were set up in response to the refugee crisis that the city was struggling to cope with. Today, FareShare Midlands supplies good quality surplus food to over 550 community groups across the Midlands who tackle hunger and poverty and the root causes of both. Through our network of community groups, we help to feed over 60,000 people every single week. We have an ambition of helping to support over 100,000 people every week by 2024.
Dicoese of Leicester
- £30 helps provide 120 meals for homeless people
- £50 helps provide 200 meals at a day centre supporting elderly people and tackling isolation and loneliness
- £150 helps provide 600 meals for families using drop in centres or food banks
- £450 helps provide 18,000 meals and deliver a van full of food to 6 community groups
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If you are donating by cheque, please post it to:
Bishops Lent Appeal – Leicestershire
FareShare Midlands
10, Wilson Road
Leicester
LE18 4TP