Need help fighting hunger.

A foodbank is a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food parcels to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger.

A typical food parcel includes cereal, soup, pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, pasta sauce, beans, tinned meat, tinned vegetables, tea or coffee, tinned fruit, biscuits, UHT milk and fruit juice.

Spareable offers foodbanks an interactive way to let their supporters know what is required. spareable then allows supporters to help the foodbank fight hunger through online donations or flexible volunteering.

Spareable is open to all UK foodbanks. As long as they're registered with Spareable you'll be able to make a donation or possibly volunteer with them.

Spareable is exclusively owned and operated by The Reinventory Company Ltd, a tech for good company. The mission with spareable is to provide communities with the technology to aid their local foodbank fight hunger for good.

You can donate within the app by selecting products the foodbank is looking for from their wishlist and proceeding to checkout. You can then make payment by using your card or via your PayPal account.

Yes. All donations made through spareable are securely encrypted and processed using SSL with a minimum of 128-bit encryption furthermore credit and debit card payments are processed via our PCI DSS Level 1 compliant payment gateway.

Yes. We'll send this to the email address you used to register with spareable within 24hrs of the receipt of your payment.

Spareable aggregates your donation with others and places a combined order with a partner retailer. Thanks to a combined larger volume, the foodbank is able to get more food due to discounts provided by the partner retailer.

The service fee comprises of card processing fees charged by payment gateway providers and a fee for our service. By paying this you'll be ensuring the foodbank gets all the full value of your donation, whilst allowing us to keep developing our service and supporting fight against hunger.

Wishlists are managed by a foodbanks demand. The reason could be that the foodbank is not registered with spareable, has not yet updated their requirements or the foodbank is not receiving donations at the moment.

You can sign up at https:/portal.spareable.co.uk, giving you access to an online portal where you can control your wishlist, see your donations & deliveries, manage your event calendar and a communication tool to reach out to your supporters.

On average spareable gets foodbanks 25-30% more food from the same amount of food purchases done in a supermarket. We aggregate donor purchases to make a bulk order thus getting discounts on food with large volumes. We also get this delivered right to your foodbank so no need to use your van to drive around collection points.

Spareable Portal is free for foodbanks for all the basic features such as wishlist & calendar management, viewing donations & deliveries.

As Spareable aggregates single donations into a combined large order, we typical wait a few days to get to the minimum order value for best discounts and free delivery from the food distributor.