On World Food Day, we're sharing a brand new episode of our Food Stories Podcast taking you back to a great event in spring of this year.
Back in May, we joined forces with Cracking Good Food and supplied food for their brilliant corporate volunteering event, the 'Carnival Cook Up'. The day-long event which was based at Freight Island in the centre of Manchester, saw around 90 corporate volunteers cooking surplus food in order to provide 1,500 meals for people experiencing homelessness around Greater Manchester.
For more information about Cracking Good Food, please visit their website.
Full shownotes for this episode can be found on the FareShare Greater Manchester website.
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Trafford Veterans has been working with FareShare Greater Manchester since the Covid pandemic. The group, which supports armed forces & emergency services veterans living in Trafford, has been running for a decade. When the pandemic hit, they extended the services they offer to include food too.
Each week, they run a Friday Hub where people can come to access help and support as well as enjoy a light lunch, and their monthly Breakfast Club offers a social space for people to meet and chat over a cooked breakfast.
We went along to one of their monthly Breakfast Clubs to find out more about what they do and see where some of the good-to-eat surplus food we provide them with goes.
You can find out more about Trafford Veterans on their website.
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It's National Food Waste Action Week and to mark it, we're sharing some special episodes to look at where some of our food goes, and in this particular case, where it comes from.
Last year, here at FareShare Greater Manchester, we redistributed almost 2,000 tonnes of surplus food which would otherwise have gone to waste. In real terms, that's equivalent to 4.6 million meals which went to support 306 charities and community groups across our city and beyond.
In this episode we're speaking to three of our local food suppliers, Hartshead Meats in Tameside, Holland's Pies in Lancashire & Soreen in Trafford Park.
Catering groups make up a small but hugely important part of our Community Food Membership. Increasingly, we receive larger amounts of catering sized packs of food, so we are looking to sign up more catering groups to our books.
One excellent example of how catering sized packs of food can be put to great use is the after-school cookery club at St Paul's Catholic High School in Wythenshawe. Each week, students are invited to come along to the club to learn cookery skills in a non-academic fun and safe way. At the end of every session, the students are then given enough food to feed their family which they can take home for their dinner that night.
The food they use is sourced from FareShare Greater Manchester, meaning that good-to-eat surplus food doesn't go to waste and they're doing their bit for the environment at the same time.
Corporate Partnerships are the focus of this episode of Food Stories Podcast from FareShare Greater Manchester.
Partnerships with businesses across Greater Manchester are vital to our work. Without their financial support, professional help and volunteering provided by our corporate partners, we would not be able to achieve as much as we do at FareShare Greater Manchester.
Assistance from our corporate partners can range from sponsoring a delivery vehicle to engaging staff in team-building volunteering days as well as offering professional support in the form of resources or advice. We are always on the look-out for new corporate partners to join us and help us achieve even more.
In this episode, we explore the different types of corporate partnership we offer at FareShare Greater Manchester as well as hearing from one of our long-standing partners, N Brown and some of their staff during a team-building volunteering day with us last week.
If you are interested in exploring Corporate Partnerships with FareShare Greater Manchester, please get in touch. Email: corporatesupport@emergemanchester.co.uk or find out more here.
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The theme music for Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester is ‘Skyward Bound’ which is used under licence from GreenBird.
This time on the Food Stories Podcast, we are sharing the story of one of our community food members, Emmie's Kitchen. The charity was set up to support parents staying at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital while their children are being looked after there.
The charity was set up by the family of Emmie, who, when she was being treated for leukaemia, identified a need to support the families of other sick children. What started as an operation to cook meals for those parents, has developed into a weekly takeaway delivery (on a Friday night) as well as wellbeing events for families and special Christmas goody bags too.
Emmie finished her treatment in 2019, but the family are committed to keeping Emmie's Kitchen going. As part of their Friday night offering, they give parents snack bags to keep them going over the weekend - much of the food in those bags comes from FareShare Greater Manchester.
In this episode, we visit the Emmie's Kitchen team on one of their Friday night takeaway evenings and sit down for a chat with Eve and Jacqueline Naraynsingh, Emmie's Mum and Gran.
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The theme music for Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester is ‘Skyward Bound’ which is used under licence from GreenBird.
FareShare Plus is a community cash and carry which operates alongside our main warehouse at FareShare Greater Manchester. It gives our Community Food Members an alternative way to access the surplus good-to-eat food we have in stock by letting organisations come to browse the food on offer and take away what they need.
Each week 80 charities and community groups visit FareShare Plus to buy the food they use to serve their local communities. For many groups, food is a way of opening conversations to help those they support access other services.
In this episode of Food Stories, we take you on a tour of our FareShare Plus operation and introduce you to a couple of our Community Food Members who visit on a weekly basis; St George's Day Centre in Bolton and Fresh which supports schools in Stockport which are are helping families in their community with food.
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The theme music for Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester is ‘Skyward Bound’ which is used under licence from GreenBird.
This time on Food Stories, we’re taking you out to meet one of our Community Food Members – the Tameside Meals Project. The catering group was formed during Covid by Kala Mandviwala thanks to a local authority grant and aims to feed the most vulnerable in the local community via community organisations and social workers.
Thanks to the relationship Kala built with FareShare Greater Manchester and the access that gave her to our heavily discounted surplus food, she was able to make that initial grant funding stretch well beyond the Covid lockdowns. Since the money ran out, Kala has been fundraising to keep the organisation running and thanks to the weekly use of a kitchen in Hyde Town Hall and a willing team of volunteers, Kala and her team cook between 150 and 250 nutritious meals each week for those in need.
In this episode, you will meet Kala as she visits FareShare Greater Manchester and then we go out to Hyde Town Hall kitchen to see the Tameside Meals Project team in action.
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The theme music for Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester is ‘Skyward Bound’ which is used under licence from GreenBird.
Welcome to the second episode of Food Stories, a podcast from FareShare Greater Manchester. This time we are sharing a few stories from our brilliant volunteers.
Last year, FareShare Greater Manchester rescued almost 2,000 tonnes of good-to-eat surplus food from going to waste. That food was redistributed to more than 300 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester and in real terms equated to 4.6 million meals. We would not be able to do the work we do without our fantastic volunteers who last year donated over 21,000 hours of their time to our operation.
Meet our Head of Volunteering & Employability Programmes, Liz Lauder and listen to some of our volunteers speak about why they give their time to help us with our work and what they get from doing that. We’re also taking you out on the road with us on one of our delivery rounds.
If you enjoy listening to this episode, please share it with anyone who you think would benefit from listening too! And if you've been inspired by what you've heard and you'd like to give volunteering at FareShare Greater Manchester a go, please get in touch with us :
Email us: volunteering@faresharegm.org.uk
Call us: 0161 223 8200.
You can find out more about FareShare Greater Manchester on our website, you can also find us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky & X.
The theme music for Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester is ‘Skyward Bound’ which is used under licence from GreenBird.
Welcome to the first episode of Food Stories, a podcast from FareShare Greater Manchester. In this episode we are sharing our story – who we are and what we do.
Last year, FareShare Greater Manchester rescued almost 2,000 tonnes of good-to-eat surplus food from going to waste. That food was redistributed to more than 300 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester and in real terms equated to 4.6 million meals.
We would not be able to do the work we do without our fantastic volunteers who last year donated over 21,000 hours of their time to our operation.
In this episode we share a bit about what we do at our warehouse on New Smithfield Market in Openshaw and give a little insight into how we get that much needed food out into the community.
You can find out more about FareShare Greater Manchester on our website, you can also find us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky & X.
The theme music for Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester is ‘Skyward Bound’ which is used under licence from GreenBird.
FareShare Greater Manchester is the largest surplus food redistribution charity in the North West of England. We've created the Food Stories Podcast so we can share some of the fantastic stories behind the surplus food we redistribute.
The podcast will feature staff members, some of our fabulous volunteers and some of the brilliant charities and community groups we serve across our city and beyond who are supporting their communities with food.
You can find out more about FareShare Greater Manchester on our website: https://www.faresharegm.org.uk/
