Welcome to the second episode of Food Stories, a podcast from FareShare Greater Manchester. This time we are sharing a few stories from our brilliant volunteers.
Last year, FareShare Greater Manchester rescued almost 2,000 tonnes of good-to-eat surplus food from going to waste. That food was redistributed to more than 300 charities and community groups across Greater Manchester and in real terms equated to 4.6 million meals. We would not be able to do the work we do without our fantastic volunteers who last year donated over 21,000 hours of their time to our operation.
Meet our Head of Volunteering & Employability Programmes, Liz Lauder and listen to some of our volunteers speak about why they give their time to help us with our work and what they get from doing that. We’re also taking you out on the road with us on one of our delivery rounds.
If you enjoy listening to this episode, please share it with anyone who you think would benefit from listening too! And if you've been inspired by what you've heard and you'd like to give volunteering at FareShare Greater Manchester a go, please get in touch with us :
Email us: volunteering@faresharegm.org.uk
Call us: 0161 223 8200.
You can find out more about FareShare Greater Manchester on our website, you can also find us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky & X.
The theme music for Food Stories from FareShare Greater Manchester is ‘Skyward Bound’ which is used under licence from GreenBird.