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FareShare Greater Manchester
@faresharegm.bsky.social
Charity organisation
FareShare is the UK's largest charity fighting hunger by tackling food waste
We provide food to charities & community groups in Greater Manchester 🍏
www.faresharegm.org.uk/
🍏A huge thank you to Fruidel and their customers for donating 3 tonnes worth of fruit, veg & milk to us last week. Each year, Fruidel invites their customers to pay for their fresh deliveries over the Christmas break even though their offices are closed, those deliveries came to us for our members!
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🙂 The Smiley Charity Film Awards voting is now open and our brilliant film featuring our staff, volunteers and two beneficiary organisations is in the running.
🗳️ It’s free to cast your vote and takes just a moment. You can vote for us here:
smileycharityfilmawards.com/organisation...
💚 Thank you!
FareShare Greater Manchester
The Smiley Charity Film Awards is the world’s biggest campaign to promote cause-based films. Nearly half a million members of the public have voted in the…
smileycharityfilmawards.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎄That’s a wrap for this year’s BEFA Christmas food distribution. This week, we distributed food to 43 North West organisations thanks to the BEFA food delivery which included turkeys, vegetables & Christmas puddings. Learn more about the Buckingham Emergency Food Project here: befafoodappeal.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Great news on our Van Fundraiser. We have had more money coming in over the last week or so and we are now at over 30% of the way to our target of £25,000! Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! www.justgiving.com/campaign/van...
#FareShareGM #FSGMVanFundraiser #MilesForMeals #DrivingChange
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Every week, each of our vans delivers enough food for 19,000 meals. That’s families fed, worries eased, & hope delivered. Help us keep the wheels turning this winter by supporting our Winter Van Appeal.
www.justgiving.com/campaign/van...
#FareShareGM #KeepUsMoving #WinterVanFundraiser
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🎄We’ve been feeling festive at FareShare Greater Manchester today for #ChristmasJumperDay
🎄As always, our very own Super Sally from FareShare Plus pulled out all the stops as the ultimate Christmas elf.
🎄Thanks to all our brilliant staff and volunteers for bringing the cheer & the knitwear today!
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🧡Check out this gorgeous risotto made by Sandy in our Main Office with one of the surplus Crown Prince Squashes we have had in our warehouse lately.

One of the joys of how we operate is that we get bulk deliveries of interesting varieties of fruit and vegetables.
#SurplusWithPurpose #StopFoodWaste
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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🍏In November, we managed to redistribute a fabulous 218 tonnes of food thanks to the support of our suppliers, volunteers & corporate partners.

🍽 That food equates to 521,333 meals - over half a million - which went out to 266 charities and community groups.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
💚On Giving Tuesday please support our Winter Van Appeal.
By donating to our appeal, you could have a real community impact!
💚You can donate and support our Winter Van Appeal at our Just Giving page here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/van...

#FareShareGreaterManchester #DrivingImpact #WinterVanAppeal
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🥫 What an amazing 3 days we had with the Tesco Winter Food Collection last week!

💚 We'd like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us including; Tesco staff, our volunteer food collectors and the generous shoppers who donated food to the collection. #TescoWinterFoodCollection
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚛Our Van Fundraiser appeal has hit 10% - thank you to everyone who has donated so far! We’re hoping to raise £25,000 to keep us motoring and delivering food to community groups across Greater Manchester. Please donate today and help us stay on the road: www.justgiving.com/campaign/van-fundraiser
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🥫 This time next week, the Tesco Winter Food Collection will be well underway. There’s still time to sign up for a 3-hour shift to help us collect food donations for the organisations we support in Greater Manchester.
Sign up here 👉 fareshare.org.uk/foodcollecti...
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🚚Our vans keep food moving to charities & community groups across Greater Manchester. But they’re wearing out fast. We need £25,000 for a new van to keep delivering hope, meals and change. Please watch our video and donate: www.justgiving/compaign/van-fundraiser
#FareShareGM #VanFundraiser
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🥬When surplus produce meets schools, families win. Thanks to Barlow Hall Primary + #FareShareGM, families are cooking from scratch and trying new veg every day. Read all about it in our latest Food Story! 👉 faresharegm.org.uk/food-stories...

#CommunityFood #Vegelicious #SurplusWithPurpose
Barlow Hall Primary School | Fareshare GM
Barlow Hall Primary in Chorlton is supporting families with fruit & veg at £2 a bag thanks to Vegelicious from FareShare Greater Manchester
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November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A huge thank you to everyone who helped us in October - a month of giant swedes & gorgeous mini squashes! Thanks to our brilliant suppliers, volunteers, corporate partners and staff, we rescued 225.4 tonnes of surplus food from going to waste and redistributed it to 274 groups across #Manchester.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re proud to celebrate Family Unit Trust - a charity born from one family’s courage and compassion. With support from us, they’re helping families facing cancer and hardship rebuild their lives with food, dignity and hope 👉 Read more: faresharegm.org.uk/food-stories...
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Our sister organisation EMERGE Recycling is recruiting a driver-collector to join the team 👇
🚚 Drive change with us!
We’re hiring a Recycling Collector-Driver to help keep Manchester & Liverpool greener 💚
💷 £12.60/hr | Mon–Fri | Permanent
📩 Email [email protected]
for an application pack quoting Recycling Collector-Driver in the subject.
#RecyclingJobs #ManchesterJobs
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We'd like to wish all our friends and supporters who are celebrating, a very Happy Diwali 💚
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🎧This #WorldFoodDay we revisit the Carnival Cook-Up!
90 volunteers + surplus food = 1,500 meals for people experiencing homelessness. Listen to the latest #FoodStoriesPodcast feat. Cracking Good Food, Booth Centre, GM Mayor AndyBurnham + more!
👉 faresharegm.org.uk/podcasts/foo...
#GreaterManchester
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🍂It’s feeling very autumnal in the warehouse these days.
Check out these gorgeous, colourful squashes! Perfect roasted for soups, pasta sauces & as a side dish. How do you like to eat yours? #SquashSeason #SeasonalVeg #FareShareGM #StopFoodWaste
October 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🥫We need volunteers to support our Tesco Food Collection. From 27-29th November we're collecting food donations at 8 supermarkets across Greater Manchester.
Sign up to volunteer here👇https://fareshare.org.uk/foodcollection/

#FareShareGM #FightFoodInsecurity #TescoWinterFoodCollection #Tesco
October 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
October 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🍏In September, with the help and support of our brilliant volunteers, corporate partners and food suppliers, we were able to redistribute 183 tonnes of surplus food.
That included
🥦66 tonnes of veg
🍋17.9 tonnes of fruit
🍗4.7 tonnes of meat
🍽️Which equates to 436,000 meals supporting 271 charities.
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🥦Happy #WorldVegetarianDay! We’re marking the day with a new recipe from our team: Vegetarian Sausage Ball Sauce for Pasta 🍅. Give it a try! 👇

faresharegm.org.uk/recipes/rach...
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🎙️ Happy International Podcast Day! Did you know we have our own podcast? If you haven't listened yet, please give it a whirl and let us know what you think. Find it in your podcast app, the FareShareGM website and this link 👇
pod.link/1784915471?v...

#InternationalPodcastDay #FoodStoriesPodcast
September 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM