{"id":34509,"date":"2016-11-29T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=34509"},"modified":"2016-11-29T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:53:15","slug":"dont-waste-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2016\/11\/29\/dont-waste-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"No waste this winter with FareShare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fareshare.org.uk\/regional-centres\/cymru-south-wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FareShare Cymru<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are helping people stay fed this winter by running a food drive that tackles both waste and food poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Situated just outside Cardiff is the Welsh distribution centre for the UK wide charity, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fareshare.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FareShare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Their aim is to take good food from the commercial sector that\u2019s destined for waste and redistribute it to charities and community groups, who transform it into nutritious meals for vulnerable people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carla Clutton, regional assistant for Wales at FareShare Cymru, said last year they had redistributed enough food for 1.2 million meals in South Wales alone. Currently they deliver surplus food to 55 charities across the region, including homeless hostels, refuges, food banks and school breakfast clubs. \u201cBoth food poverty and food waste are huge issues affecting us in Wales,\u201d says Carla, \u201cand I\u2019m so grateful that we have the opportunity to help on both issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the winter months FareShare run the Neighbourhood Food Collection, which collects food donations from shoppers at their partner Tesco stores. This fills their warehouses for the Christmas period when charities often struggle the most, enabling them to distribute extra food for Christmas meals and higher winter demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 468px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/retail-1424043_640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34517\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/retail-1424043_640-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"Supermarket food waste\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34517\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/retail-1424043_640-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"Supermarket food waste\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Supermarkets like Tesco donate their waste food to fight food poverty<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starcommunitiesfirst.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STAR Communities First<\/a>\u00a0is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0a government funded programme that helps to build up local communities in Cardiff and makes use of the food donations from Tesco Culverhouse Cross to run a breakfast club. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breakfast club coordinator from STAR Communities First, Lucy Marland, said<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the drive helps them provide vulnerable people with a free breakfast with tea, coffee and a warm place to sit and chat for a few hours. \u201cDue to the amazing amount and variety of food,\u201d explains Lucy, \u201cwhich includes fresh fruit, vegetables, cakes and breads and sometimes flowers, we are able to offer the chance to those that come along to take a selection of the food with them when they leave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no room for waste this winter as charity helps to feed Cardiff\u2019s hungry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":35277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2257,4689,5769,259,75],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-fareshare","tag-fareshare-cymru","tag-food-drive","tag-waste","tag-winter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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