1m free meals for NHS staff
A FORMER F1 boss is on mission to help fight coronavirus by providing one million free meals in the next three months to frontline NHS workers.
Ron Dennis, who used to run the McLaren team, is spearheading SalutetheNHS.org – which aims to ensure stressed and overworked staff get nutritious food.
He has teamed up with Tesco, which will supply the food, catering giant Absolute Taste, which will make the meals, and logistics firm Yodel which will deliver them.
The “Boost Packs” will include the likes of veggie curry with wholegrain rice, beef chilli with veggie rice, and fruit, energy bars and chocolate. The first will be delivered today to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Priority will be given to intensive care, A&E and anaesthetic teams, who can eat the meals without having to change out of protective gear.
Food packs will also be delivered to NHS staff who have caught the virus and are at home.
Ron has donated £1million to launch the not-for-profit initiative and will match-fund another £500,000. The Taylor Family Foundation has pledged £50,000.
Ron, 72, said: “In life there are things you can do something about, and helping the NHS is one of them. This is very personal for me because my daughter is an NHS anaesthetist.
“All of us, individuals and businesses alike, need to stand up and be counted in the effort to combat Covid-19. We’re all in this together.“
To donate go to justgiving.com/crowd funding/salutethenhs or call 0800 497 0797.