Local School Children Help Out City Harvest
Food distribution charity supplies St. Mary's RC Primary's community foodbank
Pupils at St. Mary's help load the City Harvest van
School children from St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary school in Battersea have been helping food charity City Harvest with its deliveries.
Since 2014 City Harvest has provided nutritious surplus food for an average of 18,000 meals a month, (worth £35k) to Wandsworth charities and community projects. St Mary’s RC Primary School, Battersea, has been a recipient of surplus from City Harvest every Wednesday since September 2020. The partnership was initiated due to an increased demand for food for vulnerable families, key workers’ children, and breakfast clubs throughout COVID-19 and beyond.
On the last day of the Autumn term, pupils at St Mary’s dedicated a day of Harvest Festival goodwill to the London food redistribution charity to raise money and collect much needed food for City Harvest. Year 6 students, and teachers, helped City Harvest’s driver to load the van with the goods they had collected as a school community.
St Mary’s Associate Head Teacher, Claire Mitchell, says, “We have chosen to support City Harvest as it has supported our families for a few years now. Initially through providing us with food to enhance our breakfast club offer and now for weekly food collections for our families who need that support. Our families alway
s look forward to the weekly selection of both basics and more varied choices to help feed their families. Recent times have been tough for some-and the weekly support is a shining light to all those who access it-we can't thank City Harvest enough.”
St Mary’s Associate Head Teacher, Claire Mitchell helping out
City Harvest Senior Food Sourcing Manager, Dan McAlpine, says, “This Harvest Festival, we have had an urgent need for ambient food items to redistribute to our recipient projects as we head into Winter. Support from our local community, especially the efforts of St Mary’s students, really helps to make a difference. Thank you.”
Established in 2014, City Harvest rescues nutritious surplus food from manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers, delivering for free to 350+ London charities feeding the hungry. City Harvest rescues food, people, and planet by preventing food waste, providing life-changing support to communities in every London borough through food, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste.
City Harvest enables food companies with surplus to have an immediate positive social impact with a free sustainable solution.
Recipient groups include homeless shelters, hostels, soup kitchens, mental health charities, the elderly, community kitchens, schools, family centres, children’s programmes, and domestic abuse refuges.
City Harvest tripled in size in 2020 to meet the demand of people facing food poverty, now distributing free food for more than 1 million meals a month.
You can find out more about how you can support London’s food redistribution charity by heading to www.cityharvest.org.uk/city-harvest-festival.
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October 27, 2021