Award recognition for FareShare UK

It has been raining awards for FareShare during September. It was named Charity of the Year (for income of more than £10m) at the annual Charity Times Awards. At the same event, FareShare also jointly won the Corporate National Partnership Award with a Retailer, along with Asda and the Trussell Trust. And FareShare was also […]

Tesco Food Collection in UK

Tesco shoppers donated the equivalent of 900,000 meals’ worth of vital food items at the Tesco Summer Food Collection in aid of FareShare and the Trussell Trust. The food collected during the special summer collection will help FareShare support thousands of frontline groups working to feed children and families across the country and the Trussell […]

Tafel Germany joined the Global Climate Strike

Tafel Germany and its members took part in the Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 24th 2021 to point out the dramatic impact food waste has on the climate. According to a recent WWF study, approximately 40% of all the food grown worldwide goes to waste, which contributes approximately 10% of all GHG emissions. Reducing […]

Long lasting partnership between the Cech Food Banks and PENNY

Thanks to the support of the Czech Ministry of the Environment and the financial contribution of PENNY Czech Republic, 3 new warehouses for regional Food Banks and complex warehouses for a logistics centre and two Food Banks operating in Central Bohemia were purchased in September. Other projects will be used to reconstruct warehouses in three […]

22nd Anniversary of Wiener Tafel

Wiener Tafel celebrates its 22nd anniversary! While the commitment has remained the same, the scale and scope of the activities of Wiener Tafel have changed considerably over the years. Wiener Tafel was founded by Martin Haiderer together with two students from the Social Academy with a barely existing budget. Thanks to the hard work and […]

Monitoring and outreach of FEAD-funded measures for the most deprived people

On 6 and 7 September 2021, over 70 members of the FEAD Community virtually came together to participate in the Thematic Seminar on “Monitoring and outreach of FEAD-funded measures for the most deprived people”. Hosted by Estonia, the event offered the opportunity for a diverse set of stakeholders – representatives from the European Commission, Managing […]

7th FEBA EU Working Group Meeting

14 participants from 12 countries joined the online session of the FEBA EU Working Group on the first of September 2021. During its 7th meeting of the year, a selection of topics has been discussed, among them the European Commission implementation report for the operational programme co-financed by the FEAD 2019, published on 30 August […]

2019 FEAD Implementation Report

On 30 August 2021, the European Commission published the REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Summary of the annual implementation reports for the operational programmes co-financed by the Fund for European Aid for the Most Deprived in 2019 (available for download here). Referring to 2019, hence the period before the […]