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The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation

The Stop Hunger Foundation is a registered charity that has been operating in the UK and Ireland since 2005 to help fight food insecurity and its root causes. 

Download the Stop Hunger report

Our commitment: Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation will, by 2030, have supported 12.5 million people in our local communities.

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Through the Foundation, we strive for local impact in the communities we serve, offering grants, hands-on volunteering and skills transfer to a network of charity partners who direct our support to where they see the greatest need.

 

Stop Hunger was created by, and owes its success to, Sodexo colleagues, who are vital to the Foundation. Each Sodexo colleague is empowered to use up to three of their working days each year for volunteering or fundraising activities to support the Foundation. It is also dependent on working in partnership with our clients, supply partners and a host of national and hyperlocal charities. 

Tackling hunger around the world

Stop Hunger is a Sodexo initiative active in over 40 countries around the world. In Ireland we work with charities to donate time, skills and money to tackle hunger, support good nutrition and promote life skills in local communities. 

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Welcoming Asma Khan as the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation’s first patron

World-renowned chef and women’s empowerment advocate, Asma Khan, will be supporting the charity throughout its 20th anniversary year in its mission to tackle food insecurity and generate meaningful positive impact on local communities across the UK and Ireland. 

 

Asma is one of the world’s most prominent female chefs and a UN World Food Programme advocate. She is passionate about female empowerment, championing women from diverse backgrounds through her restaurant, the Darjeeling Express in London, which is the only all-female Indian kitchen in the world.

It is an honour to collaborate with the Stop Hunger Foundation, an organisation whose mission deeply resonates with me.

The fight against food insecurity has been a cause close to my heart for as long as I can remember.

I look forward to working alongside the Foundation, its partners, and the dedicated team at Sodexo to support causes that matter profoundly to me.

Together, I hope we can make significant strides in this invaluable work.

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Asma KhanSodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Patron

Stop Hunger Annual Report 2025

We are committed to transparency and accountability, diligently reporting against our commitments.

In our latest Stop Hunger Annual Report, we share the impact the Foundation has made with and in the local communities that need it the most.

View the flipbook above or download the report as a PDF.

  • Meaningful volunteering

    Our volunteering policy entitles Sodexo colleagues to dedicate three days to charitable activities, maximising their impact on local causes.
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  • Partnerships

    Our volunteering policy entitles Sodexo colleagues to dedicate three days to charitable activities, maximising their impact on local causes.
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    Watch our Partnership video

  • Fundraising 

    Our volunteering policy entitles Sodexo colleagues to dedicate three days to charitable activities, maximising their impact on local causes.
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    Watch our Fundrasing video

  • Fundraising 

    The Foundation supports charities tackling food insecurity and its root causes with project and core-cost grants. Our grants giving programme aims to address charities' critical needs, build capacity, create lasting change and empower communities.
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    Watch our Grants giving video

Partners Stop Hunger work with

  • Aber Necessities logo
  • Trussell – Ending Hunger Together logo
  • Chapter One logo
  • The Bread and Butter Thing logo
  • Cofarm – Together We Grow logo
  • Enactus logo

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  • SSAFA – The Armed Forces Charity logo
  • Oasis logo
  • The Switch logo
  • Alexandra Rose Charity logo
  • Môn CF – Here to Help logo
  • Social Enterprise Kent logo

Join us in the fight against food insecurity

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A holistic approach to creating lasting local impact

In recent years, the Foundation has developed its activities to provide support beyond food aid, working with charities who tackle issues such as illiteracy and job skills to help create longer-term solutions to food insecurity.

By 2030, the Foundation aims to have supported more than 12.5 million direct and indirect beneficiaries* – a total of 2 million during the five-year period of the Pledge, through working with a diverse range of charity partners, supporting national and regional projects, large and small. As the Foundation’s strategy continues to evolve, we anticipate having a more transformational impact with a smaller number of beneficiaries.

* Direct beneficiaries receive the benefit of our programme first hand, indirect beneficiaries are those who benefit from the support/training given to direct beneficiaries.

Our commitments to the planet and society

The scale of our operational footprint makes us an intrinsic part of so many communities. Our purpose has always been to contribute positively to these communities in which we live and work, through every interaction.

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