For FareShare Sussex, a local charity redistributing food waste to community organizations, being part of the Living Wage Campaign aligns with their mission and supports their employees.
FareShare Sussex receives food waste from industrial suppliers and transports it to community organizations, who use it to address hunger and food insecurity. In 2020-2021, FareShare Sussex delivered 1500 tonnes of food to 161 community organizations, feeding over 21,500 people each week.
Anna Montanari, Fundraising and Communications Manager, says “As a business and a team based in Brighton and Hove, we know that living here can be expensive.” Paying a living wage is an issue of “ethics and the wellbeing of our team.”
FareShare Sussex has seen numerous benefits to being a Living Wage employer, including employee security, focus, and creativity. “People come in to work with energy and mental focus to think about how we can improve as a team and a business – rather than worrying about how to get through the end of the month.”
FareShare Sussex will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2022. Founded in 2002 by City Gate Community Projects and a FareShare Network member since 2014, FareShare Sussex joined the Living Wage Campaign in 2016. Looking forward, FareShare is expanding to serve both Sussex and Surrey. Paying employees a living wage allows FareShare Sussex to “look forward and grow as a business,” because employees are financially secure.
“We are proud to be a part of the Living Wage Campaign. We are looking forward to seeing more people join the campaign.”
Brighton & Hove is an amazing, diverse city and a wonderful place to live. Most of our staff were born in the local area with everybody living locally too. We support the Living Wage Campaign because it's important that we pay our staff fairly and set standards that will pave the way for future generations…
Life is expensive and good staff deserve to be credited financially for hard work and loyalty.
Because it's the right thing to do! Our core values are Quality, Respect, Transparency and Integrity. Paying less than a living wage goes against every one of our core values. It is also important to stand up against organisations that think that paying less than the living wage is an acceptable business practice.
“We are delighted to be able to increase wages to our staff to above the current Living Wage rate from January 2016. The size of the increases are dependent on current salary and skill levels, it will make a considerable difference to the salaries of quite a lot of them. Our employees are all skilled…
All our staff are paid in excess of the living wage, this enables them to improve the performance of the company which in turn gives back to the local economy, this is borne out by the fact that over 50% of our staff have been with the company in excess if 5 years
