Cecconi's hosts a £40 FareShare supper cooked from rescued surplus food

FareShare Sussex & Surrey’s⁴ next Seasonal Surplus Supper Club is at Cecconi’s in Brighton Beach House on Tuesday 17 November. Guests get three courses cooked from rescued food that would otherwise go to waste, and all proceeds go to the charity. Tickets are £40.

The ingredients come from FareShare’s warehouse in Brighton, where the charity collects surplus food and passes it on to people who need it. The menu is being written by a group of invited chefs, who FareShare says will show what can be done with surplus food and share tips for cooking at home. The charity has not named the chefs yet and says it will announce them “very soon”.

The meal starts at 7pm in the first-floor dining room, which looks out to the Palace Pier. Cecconi’s usual menu is Northern Italian, with cicchetti, carpaccio and veal Milanese.

This is the autumn edition of a series. The June supper club, at Lost in the Lanes on Nile Street, was billed with chefs Kanthi Thamma of The Spice Circuit and Julien Plumart in the kitchen.

FareShare Sussex & Surrey has worked against food waste and hunger for nearly 25 years. It is also asking supporters to back the Redistribution Revolution, a policy report from Felix, the national charity formerly called FareShare. The charity says the main changes still needed are tax incentives and reporting requirements for surplus food, and supporters can contact their MP through a short online form.

Tickets are on Eventbrite, with refunds up to seven days before the night. FareShare says its newsletter will carry news of the chef line-up.