IMPACT 2021 MARCH 2020 - MARCH 2021 - A RECORD BREAKING YEAR FOR FARESHARE SOUTH WEST INCLUDING OUR FOODSTOCK 2020

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IMPACT 2021 MARCH 2020 - MARCH 2021 - A RECORD BREAKING YEAR FOR FARESHARE SOUTH WEST INCLUDING OUR FOODSTOCK 2020
Impact
         2021
  A record breaking year for FareShare
South West including our FoodStock 2020
      Emergency Winter Operation

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2020-21
A M ESSAGE FROM OUR CEO
In March 2020, we were just gearing up
to celebrate a major milestone: delivery of
surplus food for 1 million meals in a year. It
was a celebration we had to cut short.

As I write this in March 2021 after an           Already, we are working hard with councils,
extraordinary year for FareShare South           communities and charities to ensure we can
West, our reports tell us that we delivered      deliver surplus food enough to meet the
food for an incredible 6 million meals           current known need, which is much higher
in the last year. Behind that huge figure        than pre-pandemic times. To meet the
lie a lot of sleepless nights, hundreds          current need is a monumental challenge in
of committed volunteers, a supportive            itself. We know our surplus model provides
community and a staff team I am proud to         a sustainable and long-term solution for
say stepped up to the relentless challenges      frontline organisations who feed the most
of delivering major, regionwide emergency        vulnerable but to operate this model at
food operations throughout the pandemic.         the levels needed we will continue to rely
We launched food warehouses in football          heavily on donations, support from our
stadiums and former bed showrooms,               community and crucially, surplus food.
overhauled entire processes and worked
with inspirational frontline organisations       The end of lockdown doesn’t spell the
who delivered food to thousands of people        end of hunger. Food insecurity rates have
in their communities. Many of those              soared with the pandemic, and we know
6 million meals were delivered to stop           it will be years until we understand the
the short-term threat of hunger, but in          full extent of its impact on communities.
doing so stopped the most vulnerable from        While so many struggle to make ends
falling into more complex situations of food     meet, we believe more than ever that no
poverty and debt.                                good food should go to waste. We are
                                                 calling on South West food companies to
As restrictions lift, we are bringing those      step forward and send their quality surplus
emergency operations that were built on          food to us, at a time when it can have a
temporary resources to a close. Crucially, at    huge impact. We know surplus food can
the end of March 2021, the DEFRA-funded          change lives, but also support charities in a
food we had been distributing ended, and         struggling third sector back to full strength.
that has played a key role in our decision to
return to a surplus-only model. Despite this,    We emerge into 2021 a different charity
we remain open to being part of future           to this time last year, and with your
emergency infrastructure for the region          support, that change and growth can be
should there be a surge in need or renewed       here to stay. To all our new and existing
crisis, but to do so would need significant      supporters, we thank every one of you
support from key partners.                       for your commitment to our cause.

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WE BELIEVE NO
    GOOD FOOD SHOULD
    GO TO WASTE
    We take quality surplus food from food
    companies, and redistribute it to frontline
    charities working with vulnerable people in
    the South West.

    Against a backdrop of soaring food
    insecurity, we had a responsibility to step
    up and serve our community.
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OUR BENEFICIARIES
      Charities directly supporting                         Projects supporting
      BAME people and refugees 1%                           the homeless 7%

Pre-school & school
children 13%

Care leavers
& NEETS* 1%

Other** 7%

Projects
supporting
isolated
elderly
people 5%                                                   Organisations supporting
                                                            families and children on
                                                            low incomes 65%
               Charities supporting people with
               Drug or Alcohol addiction 2%

*Not in Education, Employment or Training
**People with mental or physical health problems, people living
with life limiting conditions, ex-offenders, lone parents.

“Since the pandemic more and more people have been finding it difficult to provide
food for their families and we’ve seen a huge increase in demand for food parcels.
Prior to FoodStock we weren’t able to provide so many parcels and relied only on
small donations from churches and smaller supporters and we were having to buy in
some items, which is obviously not sustainable.”
                                                            Julie Dempsey, B.O.S.H

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DEVON & CORNWALL
    Expansion into two new regions
    of the South West
    Preparatory work for long-term expansion      It was also possible thanks to the support
    into Devon & Cornwall began in May 2020.      of national charities British Red Cross and
    However, the pandemic and its impacts         RE:ACT who partnered with us to operate
    meant emergency redistribution into the       an emergency distribution hub in Exeter.
    two counties was necessary - with 650         The success of the sustainable long-term
    tonnes of emergency food delivered to the     expansion has been possible thanks to
    region before our more sustainable project    the work of Shelley Wright, our Devon
    was launched in October 2020.                 and Cornwall Development Manager,
                                                  and our key partner charities, Exeter Food
    Impact in this region during the crisis       Action, Cultivate Cornwall and Love Your
    period was significant in large part thanks   Neighbour. These partnerships have helped
    to many of the 48 partner charities who       us to fully understand the contexts of the
    received our emergency food creating          areas, to build a sustainable infrastructure
    their own collection points which served a    and to ensure all corners of these counties
    further 147 beneficiary projects.             are reached by FareShare South West food.

    “The food supplied by
    FareShare South West
    has been a serious
    lifeline for so many of
    our beneficiaries                                                              10
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    in Cornwall”                                                                        2
    John Lakey, Co-Director at
    Cultivate Cornwall who have                                                     3
    delivered over 200 tonnes of
    emergency food for the area
    during the pandemic.

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IMPACT IN NUMBERS:
MARCH 2020 - MARCH 2021
  Food for 6.1 million meals was delivered
  - SIX TIMES as much as in 2019!

  Over 50,000 vulnerable people have
  benefited from our food across the region

  2598 tonnes of food distributed across
  the South West - including 800 tonnes to
  Devon and Cornwall

  29,481 volunteer hours given

  2,985 tonnes CO2 avoided

  416 frontline charities, schools and
  community groups supported

  An estimated £5million in average
  retail value saved by charity partners
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STORIES FROM
    THE FRONT LINE
    416 FRONTLINE CHARITIES, SCHOOLS AND
    COMMUNITY GROUPS ADAPT TO FEED
    THOSE MOST IN NEED.
    Here are a few examples of those working
    hard to make sure their communities are
    provided for.
                                                     Tom Gould says “We never set out to be
                                                     a big food distributor, but we found that
                                                     if the need is there you need to do it! And
                                                     together with the collaboration of local
                                                     organisations, this can become a reality.”

                                                     As winter approached, they were still
                                                     unable to hold group or one or one
                                                     mentoring sessions, and so continued
                                                     with food provision as their main form of
                                                     support. To facilitate this, they reserved a
    TOM GOULD, IGNITE LIFE,                          space at the Ashton Gate warehouse for
                                                     their own pallets to be able to provide for
    BRISTOL & SURROUNDS                              their communities and families right across
                                                     Bristol and the surrounding areas.
    Ignite Life is an organisation which provides
    mentoring services, family safeguarding          “The social value of the provision of food
    and welfare and crisis support services          for families is overwhelmingly positive...
    aimed at helping mainly young people             not only do households save money on
    and families. They provide life changing         their bills, when they’ve been faced with
    opportunities and are able to enhance and        redundancies and uncertainty, it creates
    plug any gaps in existing provision of these     a safety net that they can fall back on”
    services. The effects of the pandemic soon       “We’ve provided 75,000 family meals
    took hold meaning they were unable to            this year! - this is in large part to the
    deliver their key services and so turned their   FareShare South West collaboration,
    hands to food provision.                         we can’t thank you enough”

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SALLY AGGETT,
NEW LEAF EXETER
New Leaf Exeter is a Devon Partnership
NHS Trust’s Vocational Rehabilitation
Service and is the only one of its kind in
the UK. Their service has developed over
the years delivering therapy, training and
supported employment to adults living
with a mental health condition who are         PR AYAG R AJPUR A,
working towards paid employment now
or in the future. It is a referable service    THE STABLE CAFE,
with 5 different vocational departments:
horticulture, woodworking, clothing,           WESTON-SUPER-MARE
printing and catering.
                                               Prayag Rajpura runs one of the best cafes
Through the pandemic none of these             in Weston-super-Mare; The Stable Cafe
services have been available and so            (CIC) where the innovative menu is ever
Sally Aggett, who runs the catering            changing and the welcome is always
workshops, started supporting all of           warm. Only opening in January 2020
their clients through the delivery of food     meant that their main work of serving
parcels with food from FareShare South         up nice hot home-made food to local
West - carefully put together with the         customers (who pay what they think the
ingredients and a recipe for a home            food is worth) had to be put on the back
cooked meal. She takes photos of her           burner. As Prayag has been an integral
cooking process and prints it out for          part of the community for many years, he
each recipient, making it an interactive       felt he had to do something to help with
and personal support experience. One of        food provision. They therefore immediately
their beneficiaries was asked if receiving a   started putting their efforts into making up
catering pack increased their confidence       thousands of packed lunches for children
in cooking for themselves replied: “Yes,       from the surrounding schools. His team
but more so for my son [who lives              is made up of local people who would
with autism]. It is something we do            normally encounter barriers to employment
together, it’s very rewarding. It raises       and are in need of vocational support
his confidence & helps vary his diet”          and training. Throughout the pandemic
                                               they’ve delivered over 20,000 packed
                                               lunches, and 2,500 food parcels made up
                                               of ambient food plus fresh fruit and veg
                                               from our warehouses - committing their
                                               time and energy to respond to the crisis
                                               of the lack of food provision for families
                                               around Weston. Prayag says: “The work
                                               has given our team some purpose - it
                                               has helped them to feel like they’re able
                                               to give something back”

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OUR VOLUNTEERS
    THE FORCE BEHIND FARESHARE SOUTH WEST
    “From March 2020 to April 2021
    approximately 2,598 tonnes of food was
    sorted and dispatched by the teams of
    amazing volunteers at both our warehouses,
    with around 800 tonnes of that heading to
    Devon and Cornwall”

                                      Marcus Wells

    Carly Weeks (MACE Construction)   Emily Yates

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Volunteers are the backbone of FareShare operations and we’re lucky to have some
incredible people offering up their time for us at FareShare South West... below are
three cases in point of these Food Heroes.

We also received fantastic support from many different Bristol corporates who provided teams
of volunteers from their staff to help with the packing of hundreds of food parcels, plus the
hard work put in from interns from Sixteen Job Coaching who have made a real difference.

MARCUS WELLS                                        EMILY YATES
“I’ve been volunteering at FareShare South          “I started volunteering at FareShare
West for 18 months and have been involved           Southwest for a number of reasons.
in most aspects of the daily operations,            When I was young, me and my mum
from delivery driving to order picking. I           used foodbanks to get us through difficult
love that FareShare South West is able to           times. We were always treated with such
redistribute excellent food which would             kindness and we were given food that
otherwise be thrown away, which in turn             was invaluable at the time. I had a chance
enables charities to function without the           to see first-hand the good work that
large costs normally associated with buying         organisations, such as FareShare do for
food. FareShare South West also gives great         vulnerable communities. At the start of
work experience opportunities to people             the pandemic, I was struggling with my
who have experienced various traumas in             mental health, I ended up giving up my
their lives. FareShare South West, a great          job due to stress. I didn’t know what to
place to volunteer with fun and camaraderie         do. I came across FareShare and I realised
amongst other volunteers and staff,                 it was a chance for me to give back some
knowing at the end of a hard shift, you’ve          of that kindness I had been shown as
managed to make a real difference!”                 a child. Delivering food to charities and
                                                    communities gives me a real sense of
CARLY WEEKS                                         purpose and it’s great to know that we’re
                                                    not only helping people but we’re also
“During the early days of the pandemic I            saving food that would otherwise be
reflected on how I used my time and what            thrown away. I’m so lucky to have found
my priorities were. I realised that I didn’t have   FareShare and see all the amazing work
anything which gave me purpose outside              FareShare does”
of my family and career – volunteering and
being involved with FareShare has provided
that! It’s also been a great opportunity
to meet new people and work alongside
colleagues who we wouldn’t be seeing
as regularly as before the pandemic. You
feel like you’re making a big difference, it’s
enjoyable and everyone is so friendly! Being
able to help so many people at once is really
rewarding - packing boxes that will go to
120 people in one shift is brilliant”

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Impact
Timeline
It’s been a year of non-stop emergency
operations and new challenges, but we are
proud of the way we have stepped up to
tackle the food crisis.

O P E N UP TO S EE A TIMELINE OF OUR YE A R !
March 20th: Pandemic hits, our                   Donations from supermarkets
       first emergency operation begins                 via FareShare UK, DEFRA-funded
       and our Coronavirus Emergency                    food and heightened wholesale
       Appeal launches.                                 surplus means our warehouses are
                                                        operating at 6 times their normal
                                                        capacity.
       While supermarket shelves were
       empty, surplus food soars including              We extend emergency food
       from the hospitality sector. We were             support beyond our existing reach
       the only organisation in the region              into Devon and Cornwall to meet
       with the capacity to redistribute.               emergency food need.

                                                        The FareShare network of
                                                        warehouses had not reached Devon
                                                        & Cornwall before 2020. We step up
                                                        our work to ensure frontline charities
                                                        receive emergency food along with
                                                        the rest of the region.
2020

                 MAR                             APR                              M AY

                April 8th: We launch an emergency warehouse in Ashton Gate Stadium,
                while still continuing our weekly deliveries to over 350 charities.

                April 24th: We partner with Tuffley Court Community Association to
                deliver emergency food to Gloucestershire.

                                  “Without FareShare we simply wouldn’t be able to do what
                                  we do. Our weekly FareShare deliveries have enabled us to
                                  have a huge impact – particularly at our food pantry which
                                  now supplies nutritious, affordable food to over 40 people
                                  each week. Without this support many of our members just
                                  wouldn’t have enough to eat, and because of the additional
                                  ambient food deliveries FareShare have been able to provide,
                                  our members always leave well stocked for the week ahead”
                                  Jo Dolby, Oasis Hub, Bath
August 10th: We leave Ashton Gate Football
                                  Stadium, and set up a new pop-up warehouse
                                  ready for winter.

                                  At the end of the summer we realised our
                                  responsibility to prepare for another wave of
                                  emergency need. Without the same resources as
                                  the first wave, we needed to pull together food,
                                  infrastructure and an action plan- fast.

 July 12th: In partnership with The British Red Cross and
 RE:ACT, we launch an Emergency Collection Point in Exeter
 to unlock further food distribution into Devon & Cornwall.

 July 27th: We deliver food for 30,000 meals in food parcels
 to Bristol elderly people with Bristol Community Transport.

JUNE                        J U LY                           AU G                         SE

 June 30th: Food                As a winter wave of Covid becomes more likely, we
 for 1 million                  ramp up planning for another emergency operation.
 meals delivered!
                                September 17th: We win a Bristol Life Award!

                          “With the schools shut we contacted FareShare South West
                          about extra food deliveries that parents could collect, as
                          soon as they said they were willing to help we jumped
                          at the opportunity. The silver lining of Covid is that it has
                          made people realise children being fed is not guaranteed,
                          even here in the UK. The wider social issue, and something
                          that rarely gets addressed, is why are children better fed in
                          school then at home”
                          Ben Roberts, E-ACT Academy Primary Schools, Bristol
October 26th: Our FoodStock 2020        Two central elements of FoodStock 2020
     campaign is launched to raise           are to deliver pre-made food parcels to save
     awareness and support for our           frontline charities’ resources, and also to
     winter operation.                       deliver food in bulk to regional collection hubs
                                             across the South West.
     We start building a winter food
     stockpile of over 100 tonnes of food.

     We call on our Bristol community
     to support us with volunteer hours,
     donations and logistics support.

     October 29th: Launch of long-term
     food delivery into Devon & Cornwall
     for the first time!

PT                   OCT                           N OV                                D EC

     November 9th: FoodStock 2020                    December 3rd: Local collection
     is launched!                                    point set up in partnership with
                                                     Mercy In Action to allow more
     November 16th: First 40 pallets are             food parcels to reach groups
     delivered to Devon & Cornwall for               in Bath.
     FoodStock 2020.
                                                     December 14th: Food parcels take
     November 30th: First ever food                  on a festive twist, providing treats
     parcel packing operation begins for             as well as essentials for families
     FareShare South West, streamlining              struggling during this period.
     workload for frontline charities,
     schools and community groups.
                                                      From 1st November 2020 until 14th
                                                      December 2020, over 277 tonnes
     Significant increase in corporate                of food is redistributed by us! This
     volunteer hours to help with                     compares to just 80 tonnes in the
     parcel packing.                                  same period in 2019.
Mid-January, 16 FOOD clubs are                     March 1st: With DEFRA-funded
running across Bristol supporting                  food coming to a close and
up to 1,000 of Bristol’s most                      emergency funding ending, we
vulnerable families, all thanks to                 must close off our emergency
a partnership between national                     food operations after an entire
charity Family Action, FareShare                   year. We begin work with partner
South West and Feeding Bristol.                    charities to develop long-term,
                                                   sustainable food support models.
January 25th: In response to new
lockdown announcements, we                         March 31st: FoodStock 2020
extend FoodStock 2020 to                           delivers food for children’s Holiday
March 31st.                                        Projects over Easter.

            January sees the highest               March 31st: Food for over 6
            food output in the history of          million meals delivered in
            our charity, with 346 tonnes           12 months, and food for 3.5
            of food being delivered                million meals delivered through
            from our warehouses across             FoodStock 2020 during the
            the region.                            winter months.

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  JA N                               FEB                           MAR

                                            Our emergency food has done more than
                                            provide a short-term sticking plaster to the
Our target for FoodStock 2020 of            food crisis. In many cases, our charity
delivering enough food for 1 million        partners tell us that this food has helped
meals more than doubled to 2.5              stop people from falling into worse
million meals, and 15,000 food parcels.     situations of food poverty and debt.

                   “FOOD Clubs have had a positive impact since first being introduced
                   in Bristol. With the help of FareShare South West, they are able to
                   provide nutritious food at a price that is affordable, and often in
                   areas that have limited access to those resources. During the covid-19
                   pandemic, the number of FOOD clubs grew out of a need to provide
                   food during the crisis, but their long-term impact will be beneficial
                   to improving food security within the city. We are delighted that the
                   16th club has opened, and we look forward to growing the offer and
                   partnership in the future.”
                   Ped Asgarian, Feeding Bristol
WHAT’S NEXT
     WHILE LOCKDOWN MAY BE RELENTING,
     WE KNOW FOOD INSECURITY STATISTICS
     ARE SOARING.
     While this is the case, we believe it is more   The only way we can grow our service is
     shocking than ever that over 250,000            with support from our community. We face
     tonnes of quality food still go to waste        increasing fundraising challenges to deliver
     each year - most before even reaching           on this growth, and rely on donations to
     the supermarkets. As the largest food           keep operations running.
     redistribution charity in our region, we
     know we must do even more to unlock
     surplus food, develop targeted programmes
     to tackle food poverty, and reach new
     geographical areas of our region.

     After a year of emergency operations,
     all built on temporary and borrowed
     resources, we are working to secure growth
     to ensure we don’t drop back to pre-covid
     food levels of operation. Our community
     needs us now more than ever to supply
     affordable, quality food for the vulnerable
     people they support - while saving front
     line charities millions of pounds each year
     from their stretched charity budgets.

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Just some of our projects our team are working on in the coming year include:

       Launch of a second, permanent
       warehouse in South Bristol, plus launch
       of new warehouses and distribution
       hubs across Devon & Cornwall.

       30% increase of surplus food. We are
       calling on South West food companies
       to send their surplus to us.

       Delivery of targeted regional
       programmes in Gloucestershire,
       Somerset, Bath & North East
       Somerset, Devon & Cornwall, working
       strategically with local authorities,
       funders and partner charities.

       Development of an Employability
       Programme, supporting young people
       with training and skills to help them
       into work- to launch fully in 2022.
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SUPPORTERS
     & KEY WORKERS
     LOCAL COMPANIES WHO HAVE HELPED US
     MAKE A HUGE IMPACT.
     Firstly, we need to thank our brilliant funders who have stepped up to support and stabilize
     our charity in a period of great need. We are grateful to our funders for their fast response
     and agility throughout the pandemic, which in turn enabled us to level up operations and
     support hundreds of frontline charities with a food supply. We especially want to thank John
     James Bristol Foundation, The National Benevolent Charity, St John’s Foundation, WRAP,
     Quartet Community Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund.

                               Field and Flower have been partnered with FareShare South
                               West for the past 2 years and have been fundraising for us
                               through their customers in the last year. By mid-March 2021,
                               along with their customers, they had donated enough money
                               for food for 250,000 meals! They have also been donating their
                               surplus free-range meat and fish once a week to send out to
                               our member charities.

                               Ashton Gate Football Stadium first offered FareShare South
                               West space within the stadium for packing parcels at the start
                               of the pandemic. As the situation intensified and the need
                               increased, they offered the old Dream’s Warehouse for us to
                               continue our emergency operations, providing us with more
                               space and longer-term security to plan out operations.

     “We’re delighted to continue supporting
     FareShare South West. They are invaluable
     to the charities and communities they
     support so we hope this will help them
     continue their exceptional work”
     Peter Smith, Ashton Gate Football Stadium

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ALD have been instrumental in helping us deliver food to Devon
                          and Cornwall. Special thanks goes to Stewart Warr and his team
                          for supplying their brand new transporter vans to us, allowing us
                          to reach charities across the region reliably and efficiently.

Essential Trading, Hobbs House Bakery & Ginsters have been three local food
companies who have come on board with FareShare South West to donate their surplus
food, as well as some non-surplus food in the form of Hot Cross Buns! They have all
recognised the need to help in the struggle against food insecurity within our region, and
being able to do so at a local level strengthens the network and community.

                       Kambe Events / Shambala In November 2020 FareShare South
                       West and the team who brings us the incredible Shambala
                       Festival collaborated to supply the workforce needed to operate
                       the FoodStock 2020 campaign. Their hard work ethic, constant
high energy and amazing logistical and organisational experience have been essential
in helping get the food parcels and pallets out from the Ashton Gate Warehouse to the
hundreds of charities who have been busy helping reduce food insecurity around the
South West this winter.

                    Christine one of the warehouse supervisors during this time has said:

                    “Incredible opportunity to work
                    with FareShare South West -
                    knowing and understanding
                    the difference the work we
                    do is making to people’s lives
                    throughout the pandemic. It’s an
                    honour to have been a part of
                    that - a small cog in the wheel
                    responding to the bigger crisis”
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THANK YOU
     TO THE A MA Z I N G FU N D R A I SE RS

     The level of support FareShare South West
     has received from individual donors over
     the last year has been phenomenal. Every
     amount has helped us achieve our goals
     and much more, from the one off donations,
     monthly installments and some incredible
     fundraising efforts.

     Here are two of the incredible efforts made    There was a significant increase in
     to raise money for FareShare South West:       fundraising engagement following Marcus
                                                    Rashford’s incredible national campaigning
     An Under-9’s Football Club led by Matt         this year, which led to a change in
     Cotton in Tewkesbury successfully raised       government policy and public awareness of
     over £4,000 (incl. Gift Aid) for FareShare     child hunger. Something we are incredibly
     South West and NHS Charities by virtually      thankful for as it has highlighted the need
     travelling to their favourite football         and helped our charity members, such as
     stadiums, clocking up the miles on foot,       schools and family centres, provide for their
     bike, skate - whatever they liked as long      communities. There is a long way to go
     as it was active! They had 561 miles to        to ensure all children have equal access to
     complete and if they added on 15 minutes       a nutritious diet, and over 50% of all our
     of football practice an extra mile was         food goes to projects supporting children in
     gained. This has meant they raised enough      low-income families.
     money to fund food for 8,000 meals!
                                                    Without donations like these we simply
     Jennie Hahn bravely supported us by raising    could not operate on the scale we do - a
     almost £500, equating in enough food for       scale we have never worked on before.
     1,880 meals, by shaving all of her hair off!
     She is braver than many of us plus the new
     look really does suit her!

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Tewkesbury Town Panthers U 9’s Football Team

Jenny Hahn

“The support we have had from our
community has blown us away - from
volunteers, to offers from local companies to
individual donations. The community spirit,
the positivity and the ‘can-do’ attitude is
making so much possible. There is so much
hope, even in these difficult times”
Phoebe Ruxton, Head of Development

If you would like to support and fundraise for FareShare South West email us at
fundraising@faresharesouthwest.org.uk or call us on 0117 957 2220

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OUR FUNDERS
     & SUPPORTERS

     We would also like to thank our other            And our valued Corporate Supporters
     valued supporters including the following        including: Aberdeen Standard Investments,
     major trust donors: The Anchor, Dolphin          ALD Automotive, Arobase Creative, Bertha’s
     and Grateful Societies, The Mabel Cooper         Pizza, Bluefield Services, Burges Salmon,
     Charitable Trust, The Barnwood Trust, Thirty     fieldandflower, Grundons, Hargreaves
     Percy, The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust,      Lansdown Foundation, Osborne Clarke,
     The Truemark Trust, The 29th May 1961            Plimsoll Productions, Purple Fish Agency,
     Charitable Trust, The Pantheon Charitable        Rathbones (Bristol Office), Rockpool
     Trust and the Spielman Charitable Trust and      Digital, Smith & Williamson, Womble Bond
     all our other valued trust supporters.           Dickinson & Wilmott’s Transport.

     FOOD & LOGISTICS
     PARTNERS

     We would also like to thank: Arthur David, Bristol University, Corsham Food Bank, East Bristol
     Food Bank, Essential Trading, Exeter Food Bank, Fruition Bristol, Gate Gourmet, Hobbs House,
     Hovis, John Lewis, North Cotswolds Food Bank, Pieminister, Somerset Larder, Stute Foods,
     Sureway, Real Wrap, Total Produce, TrueStart Coffee, University West of England, Wessanen.

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“For Gloucester Food Consortium, there’s
a huge range of groups that make use of
the FoodStock deliveries. We started by
taking 10 pallets of food to deliver out to the
whole of Gloucester, which has been utterly
essential. Having the FoodStock pallets has
allowed us to be so much more versatile
with how we can help families.”
Jennie Layhe, Gloucester Food Consortium

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“To not have to worry about food at
     this time has kept me sane and has
     vastly improved our mental and physical
     health. Your driver is the only contact
     I have with another human at the
     moment and I look forward to our chat
     each week.”

     “Whoever you are, and it’s strange to
     write to someone I’ve never met who has
     done so much for me, thank you for your
     kindness and care in such vulnerable
     and frightening times. My daughter
     and I will be forever grateful to you and
     hope one to repay the kindness”

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