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The thing always missed in these articles is the fact that in order for a beneficiary to receive the redistributed food, they must pay £1000 annually to Fareshare. This is quite an amount for small-budgeted food banks. From personal experience of being a Fareshare member I can say the quantity and variety of food we have been receiving weekly is not worth this sum. Furthermore, Fareshare's reputation has made it impossible for small food banks to approach supermarkets themselves as they often already 'do their bit' by supporting Fareshare, and hence cannot support other charities. The same goes for supermarket collections. So not only does Fareshare make us pay for this surplus food, donated by supermarkets, but it ruins any chance of independent food banks being able to approach stores themselves, and receive this food for free as it should be.