{"id":109637,"date":"2022-01-19T13:13:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicscouk.wpengine.com\/?post_type=opinion-former&#038;p=109637"},"modified":"2022-07-04T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T07:45:13","slug":"fareshare-uk","status":"publish","type":"opinion-former","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/opinion-former\/fareshare-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"FareShare UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FareShare is the UK\u2019s largest food redistribution charity, with more than 30 warehouses across the UK. It takes food from the food industry that can\u2019t be sold in shops, either because of packaging errors, a short shelf life or overproduction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That food, which is the same as the food you\u2019d eat at home, is then redistributed through a network of nearly 11,000 frontline organisations, across the UK such as homeless hostels, school breakfast clubs, domestic violence refuges, older people\u2019s lunch clubs, food banks and hospices. 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