City Harvest Joins Landmark National Effort

We are delighted to be part of a landmark national effort bringing together charities, industry, and Government in an ambitious vision to tackle food waste and with a shared commitment to increase the volume of food available for redistribution.

This is no substitute for the structural change necessary to address the root causes of poverty, but it is an unambiguously positive intervention.

The National Programme to Redistribute Surplus Food establishes food redistribution as a key pillar in our national approach to food systems change. That commitment is anchored in a shared plan, developed over months by sector leaders working collectively. The Bread and Butter Thing, City Harvest, Community Shop, FareShare/The Felix Project, Feeding Britain, His Church, IGD, Neighbourly, Trussell and the Xcess Network have come together behind a shared commitment to triple the volume of food made available for redistribution.

Our Chief Executive Richard Gammage stated that ‘Today’s is but one step towards this ambitious national endeavour, one to reduce waste, strengthen communities and make more food available for those in need.’

City Harvest London will continue to play its part in rescuing food, people and planet, starting right here in our capital where the need continues to be significant. Increasing the volume of surplus food available, will in turn enable our network of community partners across the city to do more of what they do best, providing care, counselling, shelter and in some cases, company, to the people who turn to them.