FareShare North West take leap to help end food poverty in the North West
Over 100 people leapt off the Imperial War Museum North to support those in need on Saturday 16th July. The Zip Slide was from the 30m high tower, 250m across the Ship Canal and Salford Quays landing at the Lowry.
Lucy Danger – CEO of EMERGE 3Rs and Nicola Milner—EMERGE Volunteer Co- ordinator sported banana outfits in keeping with the ‘no good food should go to waste’ theme. EMERGE runs FareShare North West; over 10 colleagues also made the leap in aid of the charity.
At the event there were tasty “Love Food Hate Waste” themed cookery demonstrations by Robert Owen Brown (Head Chef, Mark Addy) – who cooked up Tripe, Bone Marrow, Black Pudding and Wood Pigeon; Dave Lythall (Head Chef, Lime) – cooked Sea Bass on Potato and Black Pudding; and representatives from Cracking Good Food – a local charity promoting healthy sustainable eating cooked Risotto and Curry,
Lucy Danger commented: “Diverting edible food from landfill and helping to alleviate food poverty is a no- brainer! We’ve run the Zip Slide Challenge to give people an opportunity to have fun whilst helping us to do more to help those in food poverty locally”. Fareshare North West has redistributed over 650 tonnes of food since 2008 contributing to 1.5 million meals for those in need in our region.
Many members of the public, organisations and businesses signed up to Zip slide, including Manchester’s famous pub-restaurant The Mark Addy and Lime on Salford Quays as they concur that FareShare addresses two of the UK’s most urgent issues: waste and food poverty.
Robert Owen Brown, Head Chef of The Mark Addy said: “It’s nonsensical. But the fact is, perfectly good food ends up going in the bin when it doesn’t need to and something needs to be done about it”.
“Being a chef you’re on the front line of food wastage.” Rob explains, “We’ve all been guilty of it, but by
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supporting FareShare and raising awareness of what this fantastic charity does, I’m just doing my little bit – everyone should!”
Many communities in the North West have high levels of unemployment and low-income households. Manchester has the highest child poverty statistics with 27%, followed by Liverpool with 23% and Blackpool with 22%. Diet- related health problems are responsible for around 10% of deaths in the UK each year. This costs the NHS an estimated £6 billion every year.
Organisations such as Cornerstones providing hot meals to people on very low incomes in Moss Side, Mustard Tree who operate a soup run for the homeless and the George House Trust who help refugees, are typical beneficiaries of FareShare. Other examples include hostels, school breakfast and after school clubs in deprived areas, day centres for the sick, elderly and infirm, organisations helping the vulnerable and those in poverty.
For more info:
www.emergemanchester.co.uk
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