Help a Hungry Child: Sainsbury's to open pop-up food donation stand in Paddington Station
Commuters will be able to donate food, which The Felix Project will then deliver to charities to feed those who need it most
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Your support makes all the difference.Commuters at Paddington Station will be able to help hungry Londoners on Wednesday, thanks to a new initiative by Sainsbury's.
Between 7am and 10pm, a pop-up food donation station will be installed on the concourse in the station, so commuters can donate food, which The Felix Project will then deliver to charities who can feed Londoners that need it most.
Items to donate include vegetables, fruit, tins, pasta, beans and pulses – not eggs, meat, poultry, milk or fish. Sainsbury’s will match each item with a donation of the supermarket’s equivalent product.
This is an extension of Sainsbury’s food donation programme, where the supermarket partners with over 1,000 local food donation charities UK-wide.
The initiative is also part of The Independent's Help a Hungry Child Christmas appeal.
Millions of tonnes of perfectly good food go to waste each year, while 500,000 children around the UK regularly go hungry, and one in four London parents worry about being able to put food on the table.
Here are the ways you can donate to our appeal:
Call – 08000 639281 (freephone)
Text – FELIX £5 TO 70700
Click – independent.co.uk/helpahungrychild
Post – Freepost – HELP A HUNGRY CHILD
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