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Food waste charity gets grant for rising costs
Volunteers at the charity never know how much will come to a foodshare beforehand
A charity that is helping tackle the issue of food waste has received a funding grant from the council.
Shrewsbury Food Hub collects surplus food from supermarkets, manufacturers and farms, and shares it with 90 community groups and 13 weekly food shares.
Earlier this month, it was announced the charity received a £60,000 grant, over three years, from Shrewsbury Town Council.
The charity's fundraiser, Cherry Teearu, said: "It is a lot of money. It sounds fantastic and we are so so grateful."
She added: "It will go a long way to helping us to continue [to cover our extra] costs that we have got. With the cost of living crisis all of our costs are going up."
Teearu said the organisation is having to spend thousands to fuel its vans and depot and covering covering staff costs, with spending reaching nearly £500,000 every year.
Shrewsbury Food Hub started in 2016, after a local homeless charity contacted it's co-founders because it had been offered surplus food by a supermarket, but they didn't have volunteers to collect it.
The group says that over the last year alone they have rescued 272 tonnes of food from the bin – enough for over 649,000 meals.
John Hughes is in charge of the logistics at the charity