# Stelios Foundation donates £1 million worth of food to UK food banks

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/05/20/stelios-foundation-donates-1-million-worth-of-food-to-uk-food-banks/
- Published: 2025-05-20T10:50:38+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation has extended its ‘Food From the Heart’ programme
in Greece and Cyprus to the UK with a donation of tinned chilli con carne worth 
more than £1 million at retail value to anti-poverty charity Trussell.**

The Food From the Heart programme began in 2013 operating from 12 distribution points
in Cyprus and Greece. It has given away more than 42 million snacks to people in
need in the two countries.

The extension of the programme to the UK will enable [Trussell](http://www.trussell.org.uk)
to provide cans of chilli con carne to food banks across the UK.

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The announcement describes this donation as a “kickstart” to the partnership with
Trussell, suggesting that further donations are likely.

## Distributing the food

The food will be distributed via Trussell’s partner Food and Community Trust (FCT),
which also runs Sheffield S6 Foodbank.

FCT supplies food to over 50 of the food banks in the Trussell community across 
the UK.

The cans of chilli con carne will be purchased by the Stelios Foundation from Kiril
Mischeff Limited, a food and ingredient supplier. It can be found in many UK supermarkets
under the Rodina brand, with a retail price of almost £2 per can of 400 grams.

The cans will be donated to Trussell and are cobranded with the three logos:

 * Stelios Foundation
 * Trussell
 * Rodina

![](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2025/05/stelios-stack-tins-chilli-con-carne.
jpg)

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, creator and owner of the [easy family of brands](http://www.easyHistory.info)
and founder and President of the the UK registered charity [Stelios Philanthropic Foundation](http://www.stelios.foundation)
said:

“I am pleased to expand our Food From the Heart programme to the UK and begin our
partnership with Trussell to support food banks across the country”.

![Food bank session today. Trussell's sign in Lewisham on a pavement.](https://wfay6x.
infiniteuploads.cloud/2025/05/food-bank-today-sign.jpg)

The Trussell sign for the Lewisham food bank.

Emma Revie, Chief Executive of Trussell Trust, thanked the Stelios Foundation, saying:

“Food bank teams are working tirelessly to help people unable to afford the essentials
and thanks to the generosity of partners like the Stelios Foundation, they can continue
to provide vital emergency support in their communities, while we work together 
to end the need for food banks in the UK. Thank you.”

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