Good news! The Government will introduce a £15 million fund to help farmers redistribute surplus food, preventing millions of meals worth of edible food from going to waste.
The announcement was made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the National Farmers Union (NFU) Conference, as part of a commitment to tackling food insecurity in the UK. Damian Green has supported FareShare’s campaign to secure the funding, which will result in the equivalent of 60 million meals getting delivered via community organisations to people worst affected by the rising cost of living.
FareShare is the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, and in Ashford last year, it delivered the equivalent of 497,200 meals via 38 local charities.
Damian Green MP said: “This is a huge victory for front line community groups who desperately need more food to meet the increase in demand for their services. This newly announced funding will go towards supporting the thousands of local charities that use surplus food to help strengthen their community. All of this food would otherwise have gone to waste, and it is right that it will now go to feed people instead.”