Two problems tackled in one move: now let's do it

CLOSE to 14 million people experience food insecurity in Britain every day. Four million are just children. At the same time, we waste more than three million tons of food every year: that's an area nearly half the size of Wales, producing healthy crops that never get eaten.

- Evgeny Lebedev

For years, the Evening Standard has campaigned to end food poverty in London, in partnership with FareShare and the Felix Project. With your help, we raised over £10 million to feed London's hungry during the pandemic and build a new social kitchen in east London. It is now the largest of its kind in the country, producing up to 7,000 fresh and high-quality meals each day from surplus food. That is on top of the 600,000 meals Felix already redistributes each week.

Today, our investigation has found that we can tackle both food waste and food poverty in one fell swoop.