Food Collection Volunteer

About FareShare

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us at FareShare. We are the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors. We take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry, and get it to nearly 8,000 frontline charities and community groups.  

The food we redistribute is nutritious and good to eat. It reaches charities across the UK, including school breakfast clubs, older people’s lunch clubs, homeless shelters, and community cafes. Every week we provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people. 

About the Volunteer Role

Demand for our support continues to increase, and we need to source food in a variety of ways to meet this demand.

This is where volunteering at the Food Collection comes in, and why it is so important and impactful.

We are holding our annual Food Collection event in-store at Tesco.  

We need volunteers to help in-store, to ask shoppers to purchase long-life food items to donate, and collect the donations. 

We are urgently in need of long-life items such as tinned goods, cereal, pasta and rice - as they last a long time and offer good variety.

The food collected is given to the local food charity who supports people in the local community. 

Key tasks  

The goal during your shift is to make shoppers aware that you are collecting food donations for charity, and to ask them to donate for Christmas.

• Greeting shoppers  

• Asking shoppers to donate an item listed on a leaflet  

• Receiving food donations  

• Thanking customers and explaining where their donation is going 
   

About you  

• Comfortable approaching people to ask for food donations 

• Friendly and enthusiastic  

• Motivated to get involved in your community.  
   

Impact of your role  

• Maximising food donations to the local food charity 

• Raising awareness of FareShare 

• Supporting your local food charity 

Shift times

Volunteer shifts are one-off on Thursday 28 November, Friday 29 November and Saturday 30 November 2024. 

Shift times are 9am-midday, midday-3pm, 3pm-6pm and 6pm-9pm.

Age of volunteer:

Under 18's can volunteer alongside a guardian


Please click 'apply via website' to see store locations and sign up for a volunteer shift. 

​Thank you for your support.