Surplus food redistribution resource hub

All the information you need to help increase the redistribution of surplus food, in one place

Building on our existing and ongoing support to UK food and drink, WRAP is now in close discussion with businesses, redistribution organisations and other key players in the sector to find new ways to significantly increase surplus food redistribution at this critical time.

On this page, WRAP will provide you with the critical information that you need to help make informed decisions about how we can all help to redistribute surplus food to those in most need. All the WRAP guidance listed here has been developed in partnership with food businesses and redistribution organisations, working collectively through UK Food and Drink Pact working groups.

How we can help you

Our main activities are: providing guidance, delivering new emergency grant funding, collecting and coordinating intelligence in the sector with other organisations and providing connections and contacts of redistribution organisations to food businesses.

Contact the WRAP team

Redistribution organisations

If you are a food business with a large volume (multiple pallets) of surplus to redistribute, email WRAP and we can help connect you with redistribution organisations.

Food businesses of all types can use the recently-updated Food Surplus Network to identify redistribution organisations who can help their type of business and that work in their geographic area.

The Food Standards Agency has hygiene and allergy advice for individuals and groups preparing meals to share in their community.

The following organisations can redistribute large volumes of surplus food:

Not-for-profit redistribution organisations

Not-for-profit redistribution platforms

Commercial

Hospitality and food service

Related resources

  • Surplus Food Redistribution Guidance

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  • Framework for effective redistribution partnerships

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  • Best practice on redistributing own-label products within the supply chain

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  • Annual survey of redistribution organisations in the UK: 2022 update​

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  • Surplus food redistribution in the UK 2015 to 2021

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  • Redistributing surplus food from farms

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  • Surplus food redistribution: WRAP's work

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  • Resource Action Fund

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