Tag: Felix

bp and Felix deepen long-term partnership to help millions across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

bp and Felix have announced the next phase of their long-standing partnership, with bp providing multi-year flexible funding to support Felix’s work redistributing surplus food to millions of people across the UK. The funding will support Felix’s core operations, giving the charity flexibility to direct resources where they are most needed and strengthen the operational infrastructure that underpins food redistribution at scale. In its first year, the renewed partnership could enable Felix to deliver the equivalent of 10 million meals to children and their families.  The next phase of the partnership…

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UK charities struggling to stay afloat in face of increasing demand says new research from food rescue charity Felix

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s largest food rescue charity has found more than 80% of the organisations it supplies could be at risk were it not for the redistributed surplus food they receive.  A survey of more than 2,700 UK charities has found that without that rescued food, 32% would have to close their food support and 52% would need to scale back their offer because they could not otherwise afford the food they need.  Since 91% of those charities provide wrap around services such as employment support, financial and legal advice, or other activities…

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