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Inside the proposed site in Tower Hamlets for The Felix Project’s kitchen (Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd)
It is cold, it is dark, and it is – for the most part – completely empty; but a gloomy industrial lot in east London in just a few months’ time will serve as the home of a food-poverty-busting operation that will see thousands of people cooked nutritious meals every day.
The site in Tower Hamlets is the planned home for our new social kitchen, which is a lasting legacy of our Help the Hungry campaign s goal to tackle hunger in the capital alongside charity partner The Felix Project.
Help The Hungry: New kitchen to give 1.5 million meals a year to the needy David Cohen
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The Independent’s Help The Hungry campaign announces the launch of a social kitchen that will cook and distribute 1.5 million meals a year to thousands of hungry schoolchildren and vulnerable families.
The kitchen, which has been nine months in the making and is set to be the largest in central London, will be run by The Felix Project, the biggest distributor of surplus food in the capital. Last year they were backed by our Help The Hungry initiative and the Food For London Now campaign on our sister title, the
Food For London Now: Our ambitious new kitchen will cook 1.5m meals a year for those in need David Cohen
Today the Evening Standard’s Food For London Now campaign announced the launch of the biggest social kitchen in central London, a project that will cook and distribute 1.5 million meals a year to thousands of hungry school children and vulnerable families.
The kitchen, an ambitious venture nine months in the planning, will be run by The Felix Project, the largest distributor of surplus food in the capital.
Last year it was backed by our Food For London Now initiative and the Help the Hungry campaign on our sister paper, The Independent, which facilitated their expansion to supply an extraordinary 29 million meals to over 900 charities and schools.
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