One Stop announces FareShare partnership with £80,000 donation

One Stop has announced a new partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare.

And, the convenience store retailer has donated an incredible £80,000 to FareShare to mark the new partnership, which will support the provision of meals to children during the school holidays over the festive period and February half term next year.

One Stop has also launched a fun-filled Christmas activity book which will be available to purchase in store from Wednesday (December 8) to help raise further funds.

The book will cost £2.50 – raising funds that will help FareShare to deliver the equivalent of 10 meals to support children through the holidays – and will be available at all of One Stop stores, with proceeds from the sale going directly towards helping FareShare provide food for those in need.

The activity book includes colouring pages, the opportunity to find festive characters including ‘Carol the Cranberry’ and ‘Lesley the Leek’ and also houses a template for a gingerbread house on the back page that can be cut out and made.

“Our stores are based in the heart of community neighbourhoods so we see firsthand how some people may need additional support. It’s key that we work with organisations like FareShare to help make a difference and influence change,” Liz Fox, head of sustainability & social responsibility at One Stop commented.

“Our initial £80,000 donation will support the delivery of 320,000 meals to support providing meals to children during the school holidays across the UK (£1 providing four meals), so we’ll be able to hit the ground running before we even start to sell the Christmas activity books. These books will then enable us to raise additional funding.”

Lindsay Boswell, FareShare chief executive, added: “Two-thirds of groups FareShare supply with food support children and families. The holidays should be a time of fun and excitement yet, in the aftermath of the pandemic and with rising costs to contend with, many more families will struggle to put food on the table over the Christmas break. We are very thankful to One Stop for their support, which will help us deliver 320,000 meals worth of food to our network of frontline charities supporting families this winter.”

Christmas will see the initial launch phase of One Stop’s partnership with FareShare and moving into 2022 and 2023, its 900 stores around the UK will continue with their support of holiday hunger and further activity books launched, including over Easter and Summer.