FareShare's surplus food redistribution saves UK £51m a year

Charities tackling hunger could save Britain 500m a year if they had capacity, finds report

The collection and redistribution of edible food by the UK's largest charity tackling hunger - and that would otherwise go to waste - saves the UK economy some 51m every year, according to an independent report published on Monday.

If FareShare and other charities in the sector were able to scale up their capacity in order to handle half of the surplus food available in the UK supply chain, the value back to the state could be as much as 500m per year, it claims.