Tag Archives: FareShare

To celebrate 20 years of The Golden Jubilee Trust volunteering programme run by the John Lewis Partnership (JLP), which owns and operates department store group John Lewis & Partners and supermarket chain Waitrose & Partners, two charities have been chosen to work with JLP closely during 2020. Some 20 staff …

More than 1,000 people across the country have been invited to enjoy a ‘Festive Feast’ hosted by Waitrose & Partners and John Lewis & Partners, as part of the retailers’ campaign to bring people together this Christmas. Food redistribution charity FareShare has nominated more than 50 charities to take part, …

  Supermarket chain Asda and British baking firm Warburtons are launching a ‘You Buy One, We Give One’ promotion, which will donate food to charities without any additional cost to customers. The trial, on selected Warburtons products available at Asda, means for every participating item purchased by customers, another Warburtons …

Tesco published its annual food waste data on May 14, revealing that 63% more food was redistributed to charities, community groups, colleagues and animal feed. The retailer halved the amount of food safe for human consumption going to energy recovery compared with last year and is now 81% of the …

Charities and community groups across the UK are being invited to receive free surplus food from Tesco this Easter. Every month the supermarket chain redistributes a million meals worth of surplus food to good causes, as part of its Community Food Connection scheme, which is run in conjunction with food …

Tesco will give its unsold Valentine’s Day flowers and bouquets away to good causes this year ‘to make sure not a single stem goes to waste’. The supermarket chain said: ‘Despite high demand for bouquets in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, some stems and bunches will inevitably remain unsold despite …

Tesco has announced a new community cookery school programme supported by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, which will teach over 1,000 community cooks how best to use surplus food donations. The scheme, which has been developed in partnership with FareShare, will offer training and advice on how to prepare nutritionally balanced …

Tesco launched its ‘Everyone’s Welcome’ Christmas campaign last night (Sunday November 5) with the first of five television adverts airing on ITV. The push focuses on Tesco’s range of turkey. The supermarket chain has pledged to donate £1 for every fresh turkey bought in-store or online from today until December …