We are Felix.
Food has the power to bring people together, yet a billion good meals go to waste every year. We work with supermarkets, restaurants, wholesalers, manufacturers, farmers and charities to get surplus food where it’s needed most.
From Shetland to Penzance, and from Belfast and Bangor to Brighton, we supply food to every local authority area in all four nations of the United Kingdom.
Felix is about more than just meals. We’re about what food makes possible. We support over 8000 charities and community organisations who provide connection, dignity and hope. Felix food helps fuel places where 1.5 million people a year can eat, connect and access vital support. Rescuing surplus food is better for people, and better for the planet than letting it go to waste. We turn an environmental problem into a social opportunity.
We’re about:
Fuller Plates: Felix’s food supports a wide range of people. Families, older people and people with disabilities. Refugees and people seeking asylum. People affected by homelessness, mental health challenges or domestic violence. Felix connects these people through food.
Fuller Communities: The charities we support are the backbone of their communities. Felix’s food fills youth centres, shelters, schools, faith groups, community centres, day or drop-in centres and more. It helps support people in a dignified way.
Fuller lives: The charities we support provide social, leisure and wellbeing opportunities. They offer financial, debt, legal or housing advice services. And they provide volunteering opportunities, work experience and employability support. These charities provide hope.
At Felix, we believe in collaboration. Together with 16 other independent charities, 18,000 volunteers, and thousands of corporate, food, government, and philanthropic partners, we are the UK’s food rescue network, delivering 5 meals a second to 1.5 million people across the UK.
Surplus food donated by food businesses moves swiftly through our 37 warehouses, where volunteers are driving, collecting, loading, and labelling to serve local charities and community groups. The rest comes straight from supermarket shelves, where we connect charities directly with their nearest stores to pick up end-of-day surplus before it goes to waste.
Felix is a new charity, with a long history.
We were founded in 2026 following the merger of FareShare and The Felix Project.
FareShare was founded in 1994 by Sainsbury’s and Crisis to serve homeless shelters with food. It grew into the leading national redistribution charity by forming partnerships with major supermarkets such as Tesco and Asda.
The Felix Project was started in 2016 by Justin and Jane Byam Shaw in memory of their son Felix, who died suddenly from meningitis, aged just 14. It grew rapidly to become London’s largest food redistribution charity.
