DENMARK - Foodsharing Copenhagen
Started by volunteers of Floating City, yunity and others in May 2016.
Public facebook group with >2400 members, private facebook group for active volunteers (>70 members)
FRANCE - Nantes - DLC, Détournement Libre de Consommables
Clément and Chloé started around January, 2016 a Facebook group based on the Foodsharing.de's experience.
Community : 700 members on a public Facebook group (by 08/2016), without advertisement
Stores : 2 cooperating supermarkets, about 7 pickups a weeks with a lot of fruits and vegetables
Legal : registered as an association on the Loi 1901, costs 85€/year to insure active members. Haven't contacted the municipality directly. Active members sign a ''Charte'' manually.
Difficulties : getting more stores to cooperate. Have tried mostly supermarkets. A bit messy at first, as all volunteers were invited to go and ask stores without preparation. Will try from Sept. 2016 onwards to look for more stores with a more structured, professional approach. Law of Feb.2016 (supermarkets must try to give away their leftovers) : an association needs to be a charity and at least 2 years old to be eligible to receive the unsold food.
Tried to implement a different tool than Facebook but very few people transited to Slack and Trello.
How does it work? Members who want to become active pay a 5€ subscription to cover the costs of the association. About 25 active members. Each pick-up needs one active member and a car. They can choose to donate to a charity, put the food in a ''Boîte Utile'', 4 existing boxes in Nantes where people give and get all sorts of things for free (without a fridge, completely open in the streets), or redistribute. They often choose the later option and write on Facebook where they will redistribute, often at their home with fixed times.
They have a quiz but it is not compulsory. 2 trial pick-ups.
Interested to try out a basic software if it's in French.
