Welcome to FoodCloud's annual report where we will share and celebrate the success that this young organisation has had in 2015. FoodCloud is a not-for-profit social enterprise that connects food businesses that have too much food with charities that have too little through a cloud-based platform and mobile application.
FoodCloud launched in October 2013 in Dublin City Centre, with one Tesco store, a few small food businesses and six partner charities and has since grown to have over 160 donors and 350 partner charities across Ireland and the UK.
In the last 12 months, we have facilitated the redistribution of over 1 million meals to our charity partners. In our Chairman's report, Eoin McCuirc, will share our key milestones and achievements this year.
FoodCloud could not have achieved this year's success without all of the support we have received and we would like to thank all of our volunteers, businesses and charities for their dedicated and continued support.
As the Chairman's report reflects on the achievements and accolades that FoodCloud has received this year, our CEO, Iseult Ward, looks to the future and the opportunities that FoodCloud has to improve and expand this year.
The problem of food waste globally has had a lot more recognition this year, from the introduction of new legislation in France to the UN stating that reducing food waste by 25% could feed all the people who are malnourished globally.
As FoodCloud expands in the UK, we have a great opportunity to develop the model at scale and work to achieve a true global impact.