Deliveroo and partners to distribute a million meals to families in need
Deliveroo today announces the launch of ‘Full Life’ - a new campaign
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Deliveroo today announces the launch of ‘Full Life’ - a new campaign aiming to utilise its network of grocers, riders and restaurants to support communities in the more than 200 cities and towns where Deliveroo operates. To launch the campaign and as a first commitment, Deliveroo and its partners have pledged to deliver and distribute one million meals to families in need across the UK.
Food for London Now: Our new kitchen in Tower Hamlets can be part of London’s positive Covid response Justin Byam Shaw
It was my ten year old son, Felix, who inspired me to start the Felix Project, with his typically generous response to seeing hungry children of his own age at a football tournament.
This morning 70,000 London children went to school hungry. I am expecting that our own research will shortly show this 2019 figure to be far higher. Child hunger in the Capital has soared over the past year, as unemployment has risen, following the Covid pandemic. One of my enduring memories of the last year is of a woman at a community kitchen in Hammersmith, stuffing her lunch into her coat pockets for her children.
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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.