Zoe's London Marathon 2026 fundraiser for London Feeding Programme

Zoe began as a volunteer at the London Feeding Programme 4 years ago, and is now the volunteer manager.

In April 2026 Zoe is taking part in the London Marathon and is fundraising for the London Feeding Programme.

Zoe's goal is to raise £15,000. Every penny of your contribution will help the London Feeding Programme expand our reach and impact more Londoners' lives than ever before.

Thank you so much for your support!

Dada's London Marathon 2026 fundraiser for London Feeding Programme

Dada is one of the chefs for the London Feeding Programme. This April, Dada is running the London Marathon completely barefoot for the second time. Yes, you read that right—no shoes, just his bare feet against the pavement for 26.2 miles.

Why? Because he wants to go the extra mile (literally and metaphorically) to shine a spotlight on a cause that’s deeply important to Dada: AMURT UK's London Feeding Programme.

Dada's goal is to raise £10,000. Every penny of your contribution will help the London Feeding Programme expand our reach and impact more Londoners' lives than ever before.

Thank you so much for your support!

Welcome to the London Feeding Programme

We offer nutritious meals to those facing food insecurity, and signpost them to a range of local support services

Overview

AMURT UK helps to reduce food poverty amongst the homeless and vulnerable children, families and households in Camden, Hackney and Islington.

Since 2011, the AMURT UK Feeding Programme in London has collected perfectly good food that might otherwise go to waste and transformed it into highly nutritious, plant-based hot meals, which are served and distributed to Londoners. Every Thursday, AMURT UK provides hundreds of hot sentient meals as well as hot and cold drinks, long lasting snacks to people in central London facing food insecurity.

In 2023 saw a big upgrade of our kitchen facilities and distribution points. In October 2023 we secured a partnership with The Salvation Army and our food production moved to our current location at their kitchen in Lower Clapton which has a big open dining room space to distribute food and an opportunity to socialise.

In 2024 AMURT UK prepared and distributed 26,694 warm nutritious plant-based meals reaching over 13,000 people—a 44% increase from the previous year.

Meals are every Thursday at:

Lower Clapton Hub (Salvation Army partnership) – 1pm-2pm & 5pm-6pm (nutritious vegetarian meals in a warm space, fresh raw ingredients, VitaBites, tea/coffee, snacks, fruit )
3A Cazenove Road, N16 6PA – 12:30pm & 5:30pm (nutritious vegetarian meals & fresh vegetables)
Greenhouse GP Surgery, 19 Tudor Rd – from 1:30pm (nutritious vegetarian meals & VitaBites)
Health E1, 9-11 Brick Lane – from 1:30pm (nutritious vegetarian meals & VitaBites)
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holborn – 6:30–7:30pm (nutritious vegetarian meals, tea/coffee, snacks, fruit)

Signposting

We distribute warm clothes and bedding and offer a signposting service to those struggling.

In total we made the signposting service available at 95 distribution sessions in 2023 and supported 46 service users with requests for support they needed.

In 2024 we distributed 223 warm coats and clothes and 57 warm and waterproof sleeping bags.

How You Can Help

Together, we can support AMURT UK’s mission and make a difference.

Here’s how your donation can help:

£5 provides 2 hot, hearty meals for someone who would otherwise go hungry.
£25 funds meals for 10 people, offering nourishment and kindness.
£100 helps sustain the London Feeding Programme, ensuring it can continue to serve those most in need.

Donation options below include JustGiving and NowDonate.

Support AMURT UK

Make a difference and help our work to provide nutritious food and other support to the homeless and vulnerable in the UK.

London Feeding Programme Timeline

Here we look back from when the London Feeding Programme began in 1979 and after a few years hiatus resumed again at Occupy London protest kitchen tent, expansion to services in 2020 through to the collaboration with the Salvation Army, Lower Clapton.

1979

A Soup Run was started in 1979 to distribute food at Temple tube station.

2011

Food tent outside St Paul's cathedral during Occupy London protest

From November 23rd Once a week AMURT delivered food to the Occupy London protest Courtyard outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

2012

Served food weekly to the Occupy London protest at Finsbury Square. From July food was distributed weekly at Lincoln Inn Fields, Holborn.

2019

Food preparation started at Mildmay Community Centre

2020

AMURT UK tripled the number of volunteers we worked with. This allowed us to quadruple the number of vulnerable people we could reach on a weekly basis.
We expanded our hot nutritious meal production and began working with new partners to help reach as many homeless and vulnerable beneficiaries in Camden, Hackney and Islington that needed our support.
Introduced a volunteer coordinator role to help with the increased number of volunteers.
Introduced a manager role for the projects in London.
VitaBites were formulated as high nutrient and protein dense snacks. VitaBites were designed to be eaten when our beneficiaries couldn’t find a hot meal as many hot food services had shut down.

2023

Food preparation at The Salvation Army Lower Clapton

Big upgrade of our kitchen facilities and distribution points. It became clear from speaking to service users there was a need for a warm place to be able to sit, eat and socialise when receiving our warm meals. In response, by October 2023 we had secured a reciprocal partnership with The Salvation Army and moved our production to their kitchen in Lower Clapton which has a big open dining room space to distribute food from.