Chamber patrons announces partnership to tackle hunger within communities
The Cadbury Foundation, part of Chamber patrons Mondelez international, is partnering with FareShare to support the launch of an innovative project involving community meal production and training kitchens in the Midlands and Yorkshire.
FareShare, the country 's largest charity fighting hunger and food waste, has been awarded a substantial grant of more than £243,000 from The Cadbury Foundation, which will help the charity significantly invest in two of its meal production kitchens that help tackle food waste and hunger in two UK regions - the Midlands and Yorkshire.
The large sum will enable FareShare to invest and redevelop two existing food production and training kitchens in the Midlands and Yorkshire.
The investment into the space located in Nottingham will allow the charity to scale up the local existing meal production kitchen in the Midlands, as well as find permanent facilities.
Once located, the permanent space will produce meals using fresh produce that would otherwise be wasted, which will be delivered directly to local charitable and not-for-profit organisations across the Midlands who are tackling hunger, poverty and the escalating effects of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
The kitchen will also further grow and diversify the range of surplus food that FareShare can accept, while reducing its detrimental impact on the environment when it is unnecessarily wasted.
Currently one in five people in the UK are worried about where their next meal is coming from. At the same time, 3 million tonnes of food goes to waste on UK farms every year.
As well as funding the redevelopment cost of the two food production and training kitchens, The Cadbury Foundation 's significant donation will help the charity fund the cost of transporting 585 tonnes of surplus food to regional centres across the UK.
The grant will also allow FareShare to continue to provide a supply of fresh, quality and varied ingredients to be used across the regions, as well as invest in training to upskill local community chefs in how to cook healthy, nutritious meals.
Louise Stigant, trustee of The Cadbury Foundation and UK managing director of Mondel?z International, commented: “We 're extremely proud to be supporting FareShare with this incredible initiative and we hope that the investment into the two food production and training kitchens will help to tackle food waste and food insecurity across the Midlands and Yorkshire, allowing those who are vulnerable the opportunity to access healthy and nutritious food.
“We 're pleased that through The Cadbury Foundation we can continue to replicate the spirit of the Cadbury brothers and support so many fantastic charities and projects, such as FareShare, which make a real difference to the lives of so many each year. ”
Lindsay Boswell, CEO at FareShare, said: “We are incredibly grateful for this generous donation from The Cadbury Foundation.
“Not only will it help provide even more surplus food to the Yorkshire and Midlands regions, it will also help upskill volunteers and people locally, and enable us to strengthen communities through food. This support will help us get more of this good food, that would have otherwise gone to waste, to people who are being disproportionately impacted by the cost of living crisis. ”
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