North Wales Housing’s partnership with the Fareshare North Wales food project continues to grow from strength to strength as more service users and tenants are being encouraged to access the service.
To date, the Fareshare North Wales offering has been limited to those living in North Wales Housing’s hostels and move on tenants, however, this is set to change as the partnership between the two organisations gathers pace. Under exciting plans, a food storage area has already been established at the organisations head office in Llandudno Junction where food items collected from Fareshare North Wales can now be kept, offering tenants more flexibility in the foods they can choose.
In the New Year, North Wales Housing tenants will be able to review the range of foods available via the North Wales Housing website and place an order via phone or electronically. Arrangements can then be made for the food to be collected at a designated pick-up point.
Brett Sadler of North Wales Housing said:
“Together with our partners Fareshare North Wales, we’re looking to identify new ways of allowing our tenants to access the Fareshare offering. Many people are currently experiencing food poverty and initiatives such as this can help our tenants buy quality foods at incredibly reasonable prices whilst redistributing food that would otherwise have been sent to landfill.”
North Wales Housing have been working in partnership with Fareshare North Wales during the past 12 months. Fareshare North Wales work to save in-date food from landfill by working with local and national food suppliers and re-distribute the surplus food to the North Wales community. Their aim is to help people who are vulnerable to food hardship;
North Wales Housing provide foodboxes and individual items to tenants most in need of help at a greatly reduced price (e.g. £25 worth of food for a donation of £5) and to date has distributed 320 food boxes in the first six months of the project, equating to three tonnes of food saved from landfill.
Sharon Jones, Chief Executive of Crest Co-operative, who run FareShare North Wales, said:
“I am thrilled that the FareShare North Wales service has benefited so many tenants. By working with North Wales Housing we are able to support tenants, who are struggling with the rising cost of food bills.”
“We believe that good food should not be wasted and that it should be distributed to people who need it,” she added.
