Author: Caroline Mulcahy
We were delighted to be presented with a £1000 donation last week from RWE Didcot Power Station, to support our table tennis team. Following their 2023 victory at the Didcot and District Table Tennis League Handicap Tournament, this donation has enabled the team to purchase shirts and a serving robot to put them through their paces. While […]
SOFEA’s Trustee Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Joanna Dyson OBE as our new Chair from 1 March 2024. Following a national search campaign last year, working closely with Peridot Partners, SOFEA chose Jo to succeed inaugural Chair Bernard Grenville-Jones as he completes his full term of 9 years. Jo is an experienced […]
The young people who come to SOFEA are aged between 12 and 25. In every case they face one or more barriers and/or disadvantage that makes an intervention necessary for them to build a purposeful life for themselves. The SOFEA model is based on three pillars: Work Education Wellbeing Each young person gets a personalised […]
SOFEA was founded to enable people to transform their lives meeting two needs – providing education/ employability skills training and supporting those in need through the provision of food. SOFEA, as an independent local charity, joined the FareShare network in order to access surplus food from the food industry and distribute it to other charitable […]
With a number of new Community Larders opening across Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes we thought it would be a good time to highlight some of what has been going on. An individual membership has a one off joining fee of £10.00 and then there is £14.00 per month Direct Debit thereafter. A Family Membership has […]
FareShare Thames Valley and FareShare South Midlands food charity backs national campaign to end scandal of unsold food being wasted, instead of donated to charities feeding hungry people ● France – which offers tax breaks for businesses redistributes 6x more fresh unsold food to charities ● Lifeline funding that covered the additional costs faced by […]
Tesco to launch “Buy One to Help A Child” this summer with the aim of providing three million meals for children. Every time a customer buys fresh fruit or veg during the scheme, Tesco will donate to FareShare. Tesco customers can now help provide millions of meals to feed children this summer and beyond, thanks […]