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Tag Archives: FareShare
The food we don’t buy
Last week J Sainsbury announced that it plans to install combined heat and power (CHP) units in six more of its stores across the UK, bringing the national total up to 16. It is not yet known if any of … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Charities, Environment
Tagged FareShare, Food waste, Sainsbury
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The Challenge we all face
I have lived in Brighton since the late 1970s and the town and now city has always attracted men and occasionally women to find refuge on our beach or streets. This is not a challenge limited to Brighton & Hove, … Continue reading
Food that is not being wasted
In the mid 1990’s I was involved in a discussion with the Manager of a local Supermarket. David Moore who now works for Spar gave me a tour of the store he managed and proudly showed off the state of … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Charities, Environment
Tagged FareShare, Food, Food waste
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A good question to ask?
In a few weeks many of us will have the opportunity to ask our prospective MPs a range of questions as they attempt to persuade us to vote for them. Statistics and previous experience suggest that in some constituencies, the … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy
Tagged FareShare, Foodbanks, General Eelection 2015, Hustings
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Foodbank Britain and other problems
One of the tragedies inherent in todays report on how dependent the UK has become on charity run foodbanks and other food distribution schemes such as FareShare (I have written extensively about the FareShare scheme I founded in Brighton & Hove) is that … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Parliament and Democracy, Welfare Reform
Tagged David Freud, DWP, FareShare, Foodbanks, House of Lords, Matthew Hancock, Nigel Mills MP
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Dealing with food waste
The company which manufacturers Fox’s Biscuits and Goodfella’s Pizza is to install bio-refineries installed at each of its 43 UK factories according to this report. This has the potential to reduce CO2 by approximately 35,000 tonnes per year as a result of … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Environment
Tagged 2 Sisters Food Group, FareShare, Goodfellas Pizza
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Businesses and Charities working together
Yesterday I was taken to task that too many of my blogs have a negative theme. This came after a blog I had written on the rather stupid and negative comments by George Osborne that Businesses need to press the … Continue reading
Our power which tends to intimidate
The core principle behind democracy is that it, and its elements should be accessible to all. Last night I had a salutary lesson in how far we have to go. At the turn of the Millennium I helped to establish … Continue reading
If you can’t see my mirrors!
The notice on the rear of many large lorries makes it clear that the lorry and its driver will only be able to respond to other road users if they are in sight. The same logic applies to all of … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Community Safety, Economics, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Beth Breeze, Bycicles, FareShare, Foodbanks, Lorries, Street Pastors, Third Sector
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One size does not feed us all
The human food chain is very complex and political, particularly in a wasteful society such as our own. 60M people consume an enormous amount of food each year, and the numbers in terms of weight or cost of the food … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Education, Environment, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged BOGOF, FareShare, Hierachy of Waste
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