Hereford Cathedral has partnered with its local foodshare project that saves food destined for landfill and distributes it to those in need.
Hereford Cathedral Partners with South Wye Foodshare
The charity helps about 600 people in the city every week, providing free food, advice and company.
Originally called St Martin’s Foodshare, the operation has outgrown the church where it started, with volunteers also facing a huge increase in the amount of paperwork needed.
Now Hereford Cathedral has come forward to provide governance and operational support to the newly named South Wye Foodshare, with its team of volunteers running shares from three different venues across the city.
Kirsty Price, the cathedral’s commercial manager, said,
“Our role is to quietly provide governance and operational support so that the incredible volunteers can continue to do what they do best and run the food share.”
Core volunteer at the charity, Cat Hornsey, said,
“The biggest support that we needed was somebody who could come in, help us out with all those extra bits of paperwork, make sure that everything is OK legally.
“There are lots of times when the paperwork gets a little bit too much for us all to do, so having the cathedral on board and helping out with all of that is absolutely amazing.”
The Very Revd Sarah Brown, Dean of Hereford, said:
“There are many committed volunteers from across the city working extremely hard for Foodshare and I am delighted that the cathedral can honour their work and quietly support this project by putting it on the sustainable management and governance foundation that every charity today needs.
‘I am particularly conscious that the current geopolitical situation has the potential to make food scarcity a real problem so a project that ensures that food is not wasted and given to those who are in need of it seems more important than ever.
‘I am in awe of how God is drawing together the abilities and willingness to help all of the people of this city of from both secular and faith backgrounds.
‘Foodshare is a small miracle, and we want to honour .’
