The report focuses in addition on food surplus in the city, and the ways in which unwanted food is being redistributed to charitable organisations, providing not only financial benefit – saving money on food bills, or allowing better quality meals to be provided – but also an environmental benefit from preventing edible food from ending up in landfill. In some cases, food provision of this kind allowed organisations to provide a proper meal to service users where none would have been provided before. The report highlights the multiple benefits arising from the sharing of cooking and eating, including sense of community, mental wellbeing and improved skills – all things that help to tackle some of the root causes of food poverty.