FE Foodbank Friday

Students and staff Colleges across the UK come together to support communities during the Covid-19 pandemic by donating much needed food items to local foodbanks.

The food is now being delivered to foodbanks, where it is desperately needed.

Leading the initiative, Dr Sam Parrett OBE, CEO of London & South East Education Group, says: “We are living in extraordinary and difficult times and never before has it been more important to help one another. Good can come out of every crisis and that is certainly what we have seen today."

“Our staff and students continue to demonstrate their generosity and community spirit despite facing their own personal challenges, which is wonderful. I thank them all and want us to continue pulling together to support one another and trying to make other people’s lives that bit easier.

"I am proud to be part of a group of colleagues who, even in the toughest of times, can find time to support others. This is what being a social enterprise is all about and I call on other organisations to follow our lead."