Stelios Foundation donates £1m worth of food!

STELIOS FOUNDATION DONATES MORE THAN £1,000,000 WORTH OF FOOD TO UK FOOD BANKS IN THE TRUSSELL COMMUNITY

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, creator and owner of the easy family of brands and founder and President of the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation is pleased to announce the expansion of the Foundation’s long standing Food From the Heart program from Greece and Cyprus to the UK, kickstarted by a donation worth more than one million pounds at retail value to Trussell, a leading anti-poverty charity and community of food banks.

The Stelios Foundation’s Food From the Heart programme has operated since 2013 from 12 distribution points in Cyprus and Greece, giving away for free more than 42 million snacks to date to people in need in the two countries. Now, the programme is being brought to the UK for the first time.

The donation from the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation will support Trussell to provide cans of chilli con carne to food banks across the UK. The food will be distributed via Trussell’s partner Food and Community Trust (FCT), who also run Sheffield S6 Foodbank. FCT supplies food to over 50 of the food banks in the Trussell community across the UK. The cans of chilli con carne will be purchased by the Stelios Foundation from Kiril Mischeff Limited, a leading food and ingredient supplier and can be found using the Rodina brand in many UK supermarkets with a retail price of almost £2 per can of 400 grams. The cans will be donated to Trussell and are cobranded with the three logos; Stelios Foundation, Trussell and Rodina.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, said: “I am pleased to expand our Food From the Heart programme to the UK and begin our partnership with Trussell to support food banks across the country. The programme has helped the neediest in society in Cyprus and Greece for the last 12 years, and I look forward to working with Trussell to help more people who need this in the UK”.

Emma Revie, Chief Executive of Trussell Trust, said: “We are really grateful to the Stelios Foundation for supporting Trussell and our community of food banks. Food bank teams are working tirelessly to help people unable to afford the essentials and thanks to the generosity of partners like the Stelios Foundation, they can continue to provide vital emergency support in their communities, while we work together to end the need for food banks in the UK. Thank you.”

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