Clwyd West MP, David Jones, has praised the work of North Wales-based Crest Co-operative after paying a visit to its headquarters in Llandudno Junction.
The MP toured Crest’s FareShare warehouse, met adults with learning disabilities who take part in supported work placements at Crest and visited the Crest Community Store.
David Jones was keen to find out how vulnerable members of society in community groups across Conwy and Denbighshire have benefited from food provided by FareShare North Wales.
The project was established in September last year and in just three months the community food sharing scheme provided more than £36, 000 worth of food to North Wales’s homeless and vulnerable and diverted more than 22 tonnes of food from landfill.
David Jones said:
“Crest Co-operative is very much Big Society in action. I am particularly impressed by the way it has taken up the FareShare scheme, helping ensure that good quality food is distributed to the most vulnerable members of our community and protecting the environment by keeping it out of landfill.
“This is just the sort of activity that the Government is keen to encourage as part of the Big Society agenda.
“I am sure that Crest and its excellent work will go from strength to strength.”
