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The Tech Behind Food Banks (A Winter Survival Appeal Special)

Dec 08, 20236 min
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Episode description

This is a special edition of the Standard’s Tech and Science Daily, in support of the Evening Standard's Christmas campaign with Comic Relief.


Our Winter Survival Appeal is raising funds to help those being worst affected by the cost of living crisis. To find out more go to standard.co.uk or to donate go to comicrelief.com/wintersurvival 


If you think running a food bank is just about filling shelves, you may be surprised to learn there's a huge amount of tech powering the entire operation.


In this episode we talk to Carl Hawkes, the head of network support at Fareshare. It's a food redistribution organisation that supplies charities around the UK and is pioneering the use of big data to make their operation more efficient. 

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