Category: World-changing Teams
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Sow and sow again: JLR
Dee Ward, our Coventry Foodbank Project Manager, was delighted to welcome some staff from JLR Solihull for a volunteering day. They spent their day helping us build, extend and plant our Sow to Grow garden. Funded by a grant from The National Garden Scheme, the garden transforms an unused part of our Binley warehouse site from…
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A powerful partnership: AGCO Finance
For the last two years, AGCO Finance have invested in Lillington Community Pantry, one of our UK-based Transformation Projects. Their partnership has been world-changing for the 861 clients of the Pantry, giving low-cost access to essential food. combatting rural food poverty Lillington Community Pantry is the next step on from accessing emergency food at a…
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Hands-on CSR: Medtronic
“It was amazing running a rice packing day for Medtronic,” said Feed The Hungry UK staff member, Nathan. “They went above and beyond, treating me as part of the team. It was a fabulous event!” The best possible CSR Involvement days As a part of Medtronic‘s CSR policies, they fund 3 or 4 involvement days…
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“The office is buzzing”: Warner Bros
In September 2024, CEO Gavin Kibble headed down to Holborn in London to run a rice packing day for 120 staff at Warner Bros’ offices. Over the course of a day, packing over 4000 meals per hour, they smashed their 20,000 meal packing target! Raring to go? Get started now! A day to celebrate Whenever…
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Packing rice for Christmas: Centrica
This was a Christmas staff celebration that makes a difference! The Centrica team packed 10,000 rice meals for The Joseph Foundation in Zimbabwe, in an event that was full of festive cheer. The joy of rice packing We see people coming back to rice packing again and again. It’s genuinely good fun and so satisfying…
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Delivering a difference with Tesco
What does Tesco do with a van that’s no longer suitable for their needs, but still has plenty of life left? They donate it to Coventry Foodbank. Fighting food poverty in coventry Tesco has been a major supporter of the Trussel Trust and a generous donor to Coventry Foodbank since its inception in 2011. So…
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Skills redeployed: RE-ACT
There is a very strong, simple link between meals in school and school attendance. If a hot meal is provided, children will come. If it is not, they will not. That’s one of the many reasons why our high-nutrition rice meals are so effective – they keep children coming back to school, week after week.…