Matt Dawson tackles hunger in London

This week saw former Rugby World Cup winner, Celebrity Masterchef winner and Sodexo’s ambassador for health and wellbeing, Matt Dawson, redistributing surplus food from charity FareShare to Londoners suffering from food poverty.

Dawson joined Sodexo UK and Ireland’s chief executive, Debbie White, to mark Sodexo’s Servathon – an annual month-long campaign which invites Sodexo employees to join forces and tackle hunger in their local communities, through volunteering, fundraising or donating and serving meals. More than 40,000 Sodexo employees across 35 countries took part in the 2012 Servathon.

The pair went out with volunteers from national food poverty and food redistribution charity Fareshare, collecting surplus sandwiches, salads and baguettes from central London outlets before delivering them to six London-based charities, including Look Ahead, a hostel for vulnerable men and women.

Commenting on the experience, Matt said: “Volunteering really opens your eyes to the amount of food wasted in London, and the good that food can do when it is redistributed. FareShare do a fantastic job in redirecting this food to charities and thousands of people throughout London depend on them.”

Debbie added: “Volunteering really reinforced to me the importance both of volunteering and of redistributing surplus food to support the most vulnerable parts of our society.”

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