Pet charity partnership aims to help people struggling to feed their furry friends

AN alliance of national animal charities has joined forces with FareShare to help owners in need to feed their hungry pets in the face of the cost of living crisis.

Among the global corporate donors supporting the initiative are Pets at Home, Petplan, Purina Petcare, Lily’s Kitchen, and Mars Petcare

Dogs Trust, RSPCA, Battersea, and Cats Protection are working together with industry body UK Pet Food to secure food from pet food manufacturers, which is then distributed all over the UK through FareShare, the UK’s largest charity fighting hunger and food waste.

This scheme has been made possible thanks to Petplan covering the cost of distributing food to pets in need.

The alliance will help redistribute pet food to FareShare’s network of 9500 charities which, as well as providing food banks, also provide wraparound services that help tackle the root causes of poverty, including homelessness shelters, women’s refuge centres, older people’s lunch clubs and after school clubs. This pet food will help owners most impacted by the cost of living crisis.

Lindsay Boswell, CEO of FareShare: “The cost of living crisis is having a disproportionate impact on people already struggling to make ends meet.

"We’re incredibly proud to be working with these animal welfare charities and their pet food partners so that people won’t have to choose between feeding themselves or their pets during what is a challenging time for many.”

To date, the programme has received 43,621 kilograms of pet food, the equivalent of over 304,000 meals for hungry pets across the UK, who might not otherwise have been fed a proper meal that day.

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