FareShare South West is your local food charity.

Our vision is a future where no food is wasted and all people can thrive.

FareShare South West’s new Impact Report tells our story: how we rescue food, who we share it with, and what a transformative impact our work has from Cornwall to Gloucestershire.

FareShare South West facts

  • 1,830 tonnes of good-quality food was saved from the bin 
  • reaching 42,000 people of all ages and backgrounds, through 370 different charities, schools and community hubs 
  • 4.36 million meals worth of food delivered to communities hit hardest by the cost of living crisis 
  • 32 people supported with employability through our FareChance programme and Plymouth pilot projects 

Together, our volunteers, fundraisers, donors, food suppliers and member charities made this possible.

How can I support FareShare South West?

We’re a charity, and we need your help. Could you do just one thing?

Donate

Give today and you’ll be supporting people and planet. Every £10 donation rescues enough food for 40 meals.

Volunteer

Volunteer in Bristol or Plymouth today to give back to your local community, stay active and fight food poverty and waste. We also welcome groups and individuals from businesses who want to do corporate volunteering.

Sign up for news

Not everyone has money or time to spare, but we can all commit to staying informed. Sign up for news and we’ll send you occasional updates to keep you up to date on food issues, community resilience and the social and environmental big picture.

Our impact over the years

We rescue food from the wholesale level of the food industry

The vast majority of surplus occurs before food even gets to the supermarket. FareShare South West rescues that food and redistributes it to our network of member charities. Felix Go is the Felix network’s supermarket collection service, which deals with supermarket-level surplus.

Find out more about what we do