Food Stories

In this episode of Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester, we visit Trust House Bury to see how surplus food is helping support people across the local community. Through their pantry and café, Trust House Bury provides affordable food—and a vital gateway to wider support. Hear from staff, volunteers and visitors about the difference it makes. A powerful story of community, connection and...

In this episode of Food Stories , we visit Levenshulme Inspire , a thriving community hub where affordable meals, friendly faces and shared spaces help bring people together. Based in the Levenshulme United Reformed Church building, Inspire hosts a wide range of activities for local residents – and runs a welcoming community café using surplus food from FareShare Greater Manchester. We hear from c...

In this episode of Food Stories , we explore the storybehind the Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal and its annual Christmas delivery to FareShare Greater Manchester. What began 40 years ago as a single truck delivering turkeysfor people in need has grown into a nationwide effort helping charities provide festive meals to vulnerable communities. Hear from Ken Smith from BEFA, FareShare Greater Manch...

Food Waste Action Week begins today and we’re celebratingwith the return of our Food Stories Podcast! We took our microphone out to Crumpsall to chat to the amazing team behind Rainbow Surprise, one of our community food members, who are doing amazing things to support their local community and people from further afield too. Rainbow Surprise is a busy community hub which operates out of Crumpsall...

On World Food Day, we're sharing a brand new episode of our Food Stories Podcast taking you back to a great event in spring of this year. Back in May, we joined forces with Cracking Good Food and supplied food for their brilliant corporate volunteering event, the 'Carnival Cook Up'. The day-long event which was based at Freight Island in the centre of Manchester, saw around 90 corporat...

Trafford Veterans has been working with FareShare Greater Manchester since the Covid pandemic. The group, which supports armed forces & emergency services veterans living in Trafford, has been running for a decade. When the pandemic hit, they extended the services they offer to include food too. Each week, they run a Friday Hub where people can come to access help and support as well as enjoy...

It's National Food Waste Action Week and to mark it, we're sharing some special episodes to look at where some of our food goes, and in this particular case, where it comes from. Last year, here at FareShare Greater Manchester, we redistributed almost 2,000 tonnes of surplus food which would otherwise have gone to waste. In real terms, that's equivalent to 4.6 million meals which went...

Catering groups make up a small but hugely important part of our Community Food Membership. Increasingly, we receive larger amounts of catering sized packs of food, so we are looking to sign up more catering groups to our books. One excellent example of how catering sized packs of food can be put to great use is the after-school cookery club at St Paul's Catholic High School in Wythenshawe. Each w...

Corporate Partnerships are the focus of this episode of Food Stories Podcast from FareShare Greater Manchester. Partnerships with businesses across Greater Manchester are vital to our work. Without their financial support, professional help and volunteering provided by our corporate partners, we would not be able to achieve as much as we do at FareShare Greater Manchester. Assistance from our corp...

This time on the Food Stories Podcast, we are sharing the story of one of our community food members, Emmie's Kitchen. The charity was set up to support parents staying at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital while their children are being looked after there. The charity was set up by the family of Emmie, who, when she was being treated for leukaemia, identified a need to support the famil...

FareShare Plus is a community cash and carry which operates alongside our main warehouse at FareShare Greater Manchester. It gives our Community Food Members an alternative way to access the surplus good-to-eat food we have in stock by letting organisations come to browse the food on offer and take away what they need. Each week 80 charities and community groups visit FareShare Plus to buy the foo...

This time on Food Stories, we’re taking you out to meet one of our Community Food Members – the Tameside Meals Project. The catering group was formed during Covid by Kala Mandviwala thanks to a local authority grant and aims to feed the most vulnerable in the local community via community organisations and social workers. Thanks to the relationship Kala built with FareShare Greater Manchester and...

Welcome to the second episode of Food Stories, a podcast from FareShare Greater Manchester. This time we are sharing a few stories from our brilliant volunteers. Last year, FareShare Greater Manchester rescued almost 2,000 tonnes of good-to-eat surplus food from going to waste. That food was redistributed to more than 300 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester and in real terms e...

Welcome to the first episode of Food Stories, a podcast from FareShare Greater Manchester. In this episode we are sharing our story – who we are and what we do. Last year, FareShare Greater Manchester rescued almost 2,000 tonnes of good-to-eat surplus food from going to waste. That food was redistributed to more than 300 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester and in real terms eq...

FareShare Greater Manchester is the largest surplus food redistribution charity in the North West of England. We've created the Food Stories Podcast so we can share some of the fantastic stories behind the surplus food we redistribute. The podcast will feature staff members, some of our fabulous volunteers and some of the brilliant charities and community groups we serve across our city and beyond...