Chiswick Book Festival and Cookbook Festival to support The Felix Project
‘Deliciously Ella’ Mills, who spoke at the Cookbook Festival in 2018, helps at The Felix Project
The Chiswick Book Festival and the Cookbook Festival have chosen The Felix Project as their new charity, to be supported at both festivals in Chiswick in September. The Felix Project saves surplus food from suppliers and redistributes it to charities and schools in London, to help reduce waste and relieve food poverty.
It joins two reading charities already supported by the festivals – InterAct Stroke Support, which employs actors to read to stroke payments at Hammersmith Hospital, and Doorstep Library, which brings books to the homes of children in disadvantaged areas of London.
The director of the Chiswick Book Festival, Torin Douglas, said: “We’re delighted to be supporting The Felix Project, a local charity which does terrific work throughout London. Last year, we welcomed the first Cookbook Festival to Chiswick and we wanted to reflect its success in the charities we support. Their team recommended The Felix Project and we thought it was a great choice.”
Lucy Cufflin, one of the founders of the Cookbook Festival, said: “We are a group of chefs, cookery writers and food editors and we are thrilled to be involved with The Felix Project. As well as raising money, we’ll be producing recipes for healthy meals that can be prepared in schools and other places which receive fruit and vegetables from Felix. And we’ll be working in other ways to spread the word about the great work done by the charity.”
Mary Powys, Head of Fundraising for The Felix Project, said: “The Felix Project is delighted to be the chosen charity for the Chiswick Book Festival and the Cookbook Festival. Our food rescue operation relies on partnerships like this to deliver good food to good causes. This year we aim to deliver enough food for around 5 million meals to more than 280 frontline charities and Schools. The support of these two festivals will help us to achieve this goal”.
See full news release – The Felix Project