Hotpoint raises £20k to help food charity

Employer backs campaign to end food waste

Workers at Peterboroughbased Hotpoint have helped raise £20,000 for a charity fighting food waste.

Themoneywasraisedthrough a pop-up café and Hotpoint’s donation of £3 each to the charity FoodCycle for the sale of certain cooking products.

Foodcycle has a project at the Park Road Baptist Church, in Peterborough, where meals are prepared by volunteers using surplus food sourced from local businesses.

Hotpoint, of Morley Road, is running a Fresh Thinking for Forgotten Food campaign to get people to think differently about the forgotten food in their kitchens.

Jennifer Taylor, head of brand, Hotpoint, said: “It has been a pleasure to contribute to such a brilliant mission, by raising money that will be contributed to the 38 community projects that span the country, including the Peterborough Project.”

Ian Moverley, of Whirlpool UK Appliances, presents the cheque to Mary McGrath, CEO of Food Cycle.