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Children should not be going to school hungry, says Lord Lebedev Joe Murphy © Provided by The Independent The “surge in hunger” during the Covid pandemic was highlighted by Lord Lebedev in parliament on Wednesday as he gave a personal pledge to take action to deliver more healthy food to vulnerable people. Making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the crossbench peer said: “Perhaps it does need an outsider to say this – we are a rich country and children should not be going to school hungry.” He called for an end to “the filthy practice” of the illegal wi...

Don't show me this message again✕ 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 ...

Help The Hungry: New kitchen to give 1.5 million meals a year to the needy David Cohen Today 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 cam...

Revealed: UK’s largest supermarkets throw away enough food for 190 million meals each year David Cohen © Provided by The Independent Supermarkets are throwing away the equivalent of 190 million meals a year that could be given to the hungry, The Independent reveals today. The latest data shows that Britain’s top 10 chains are donating less than 9 per cent of their surplus food for human consumption. Just 24,242 tons was passed on to the needy out of 282,338 tons of unsold food approaching its use-by or best-before date. The government-backed charity Waste and Resources...

Help the Hungry: Craig David, Tinie Tempah and KSI join us in the kitchen for our Christmas appeal Arjun Neil Alim © Provided by The Independent Our campaign was bolstered by the support of Craig David, Tinie Tempah and KSI as the trio joined our volunteers to prepare food for children as part of our Help The Hungry appeal. The three stars arrived at London Scottish House, a historic venue in Westminster that has been loaned to our appeal in partnership with charity With Compassion, to lend a hand to volunteers including The Independent’s largest shareholder Evgeny Lebede...