# BaxterStorey raises £38,000 in fight against child hunger

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/01/27/baxterstorey-raises-38000-in-fight-against-child-hunger/
- Published: 2014-01-27T12:12:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**27^(th) January 2014 – BaxterStorey chefs and baristas have helped raise £38,000
in aid of Action Against Hunger, the charity dedicated to ending child hunger.  **

The funds were raised through the sale of cookies and coffee at BaxterStorey-run
restaurants, cafés and deli bars across the country and will go towards the fight
against childhood malnutrition.

BaxterStorey is the UK’s leading corporate restaurateur and provides high quality
staff catering to businesses including RBS Group, Deutsche Bank and IPC Media.  
In its first fundraising initiative for humanitarian organisation Action Against
Hunger, the caterer’s chefs baked and sold some 42,000 cookies to raise much needed
funds for malnourished children in over 45 countries throughout the world.  Thanks
to Brakes, who provided ingredients for the cookies free of charge, every single
penny of the treat’s 75p retail price was able to be donated to Action Against Hunger,
raising a total of £32,000.

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In addition to the cookie sales, BaxterStorey baristas set to work percolating, 
pouring and frothing 600,000 cups of coffee, donating 1p for every cup sold to raise
a further £6,000 for the charity.  It costs as little as £42 to provide life-saving
treatment to a malnourished child[[1]](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/01/27/baxterstorey-raises-38000-in-fight-against-child-hunger/#_ftn1).
Therefore BaxterStorey’s donation of £38,000 will go a long way in saving the lives
of malnourished children around the world.

Alastair Storey, Chairman of BaxterStorey, said: “We’re responsible for providing
fresh and nutritious food to thousands of people in the UK so helping to provide
access to safe, sustainable food sources is something we feel really passionate 
about.  I couldn’t be more pleased with the success of our first fundraising initiative
and to know that as a team we’re now part of such an important cause as helping 
to end child hunger.  It’s great to know we’re helping to provide for many children
both at home and further afield, and we look forward to supporting Action Against
Hunger further in 2014.”

Jean-Michel Grand, Executive Director at Action Against Hunger, said: “I would like
to express my sincere gratitude to everyone at BaxterStorey for their generous donation
of £38,000 to support Action Against Hunger’s mission of ending child hunger around
the world.

“BaxterStorey’s recent support is very timely as Action Against Hunger is working
in many critical situations around the world, from responding to the aftermath of
Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines to working in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey,
providing emergency food supplies, hygiene kits and access to safe water to displaced
Syrian families as they face a treacherous winter.  Action Against Hunger is also
working in areas of conflict: one of the poorest countries in the world, the Central
African Republic, where children are bearing the brunt of the violence and in South
Sudan where Action Against Hunger is providing life-saving care as fighting continues.”

The cookie and coffee sale was BaxterStorey’s first fundraising initiative for Action
Against Hunger and marks the start of an official partnership between the humanitarian
organisation and the WSH Foundation – a registered charity which supports charitable
causes on behalf of WSH, BaxterStorey, Holroyd Howe, Caterlink, Portico and Benugo.

Action Against Hunger is committed to ending child hunger and is recognised as a
leader in the fight against malnutrition, saving the lives of malnourished children
while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions 
to hunger.

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