Charities to get £15m to save surplus farm food

Charities, nutrient banks and stateless shelters are to person entree to a £15m money from the authorities to assistance usage surplus workplace food.

Set to beryllium launched successful 2025 the strategy volition springiness grants of £20,000 oregon much to the not-for-profit nutrient redistribution assemblage successful England.

It continues a pledge by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's predecessor Rishi Sunak to motorboat a nutrient discarded prevention fund.

The authorities estimates astir 330,000 tonnes of edible nutrient a twelvemonth are wasted oregon utilized for carnal feed.

The strategy aims to assistance those groups unafraid caller instrumentality - similar hoppers and balers - oregon to bid unit and acceptable up caller exertion truthful they tin get nutrient that would beryllium wasted to those who request it most.

Labour's Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh said: "With families gathering to observe Christmas and the New Year, it's important to retrieve those successful our communities who whitethorn beryllium going bare this festive period.

"Nobody wants to spot bully nutrient spell to discarded - particularly farmers who enactment hard to enactment nutrient connected household tables crossed the country."

The heads of 2 nutrient redistribution charities said they were "thrilled" the money had travel to fruition aft years of campaigning and were anxious to enactment rapidly to maximise its interaction during the British increasing season.

Charlotte Hill and Kris Gibbon-Walsh, main executives of charities The Felix Project and FareShare, said they were "thrilled" that the money had been announced aft years of campaigning.