• Pret Foundation Trust
  • Introduction
  • The Pret Charity Run
  • Simon Hargraves Apprenticeship Scheme
  • Small Grassroots Homeless Charities and Projects

Hope Sandwich Box

Helping to provide hope this year

Thanks to your support, we were able to raise £300,636 over Christmas through the sales of our sandwiches and baguettes plus Foursquare check-ins. With this money we're able to distribute our unsold food via the Pret Charity Run and employment opportunities through the Simon Hargraves Apprenticeship Scheme. We're also able to help a selection of charities who in turn will provide food and support to hundreds of people fighting homelessness across the UK.

Here are just a few of the charities that we'll be supporting this year:

999 Club, Deptford £23,769

Grocery bill and cost of annual salary ( 4 days a week) of Homeless Worker.

Olallo Project, London £9,950

The money will help with their healthy eating and healthy living programme. This is a project that offers short term accommodation and help for newly-arrived migrants, with no recourse to public funds, so that they are able to find work and a place in society, rather than falling into homelessness.

The Clocktower Sanctuary, Brighton £26,764

This helps to fund the salary for the Project Manager. The Clocktower day centre provides information, advice and support to young people between the ages of 16 and 25 who are homeless or insecurely housed.

Cornerstone, Manchester £15,000

The money will go towards the costs of a full time support worker./ Cornerstone is a day centre for people who are homeless, have no settled address or are cut off from their family.

Cricklewood Homeless Concern, London £9,800

The money helps towards running the shelter. Cricklewood provides advice and practical assistance to people who are homeless or living in inadequate accommodation. The range of their services includes advice and a residential alcohol recovery project. They are a partner charity in the Pret Apprenticeship Scheme.

Create, Deptford £4,797

Create run a creative writing and music workshop. They offer a day centre that serves people in South East London suffering from homelessness, mental ill health, loneliness and severe poverty.

A.S.L.A.N. ( All Souls Local Action Network), London £1,600

On Sundays, from December 2nd, for 16 weeks, A.S.L.A.N. will be once again hosting the Westminster Winter Shelter. Pret is covering the cost of the grocery bill.

Hinde St, Methodist Church, London £1,918

Night shelter open on Mondays, from December to March. This year, they bought new camp beds and new sleeping bag liners with Pret help. Pret is also covering the grocery bill.

Notre Dame de France, London £7,875.16

Another winter shelter. Open for 12 weeks. Pret is providing support by covering the costs of the grocery. They also run a Saturday Sandwich Service all year round and Pret is paying for their new water boiler, while also paying for the food given to an average of 140 people every week. Pret soups are also donated regularly.


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