Throughout the year we add a voluntary £1.23 to all our bills giving the opportunity for you, our customers to contribute. We have raised hundreds and thousands of pounds over the years.
The primary focus of our support, in this way, is to the Carbon Friendly Dining and Gift Tree initiative. To date, and over the last 5 years we have raised the money to plant over 400,000 trees. Carbon neutrality and environmental sustainability are key challenges society faces. You are helping to tackle this, while providing communities in developing countries with the opportunity to create permanent positive change for themselves.
Every tree sequesters a tonne of CO2 in its lifetime, promotes biodiversity and helps with soil repair and the reversal of desertified land. High yield harvests provide a regular food source, livestock fodder and surplus sold for income to provide healthcare and education. Every GiftTree contributes to a sustainable community. For good.
An outstanding initiative which successfully merges the luxury of eating out with the joy of knowing we are simultaneously giving something back to nourish our planet.’
Mr Satinder Bindra, whilst Director of Communications for United Nations Environment Programme.
We are also very proud to work with Streetsmart in the run up to Christmas for the last two years. Again, by inviting our diners to contribute £1.23 of their bill we have collectively donated £45,275 to Streetsmart in 2022 and 2023 and are looking forward to running the same initiative in 2024.
StreetSmart was established in 1998 and since then has raised over £12 million for homeless and vulnerable people across the UK. At participating restaurants during the festive months of November and December, a voluntary £1 is added to the diners’ bill.
At the end of each month, the restaurant passes on all of these £1s to StreetSmart which are then used to support reputable charities for the homeless.
All StreetSmart’s running and operational costs are generously paid for by their sponsors, so every penny in every £1 raised goes directly to the people who need it.
StreetSmart is a fabulous charity that remembers the homeless in our city at a time of year when we should be thinking about others. More importantly, our guests agree.
Marcus Wareing, Chef, Restaurateur
As well as Carbon Friendly Dining and Streetsmart we have, on occasion, supported other charities by collecting £1 on our diner’s bills. These are Cook for Ukraine, for which we raised £26,507, Duchenne UK, £4,004 and My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, £7,078.
We also always try to support as many community projects and campaigns as we can. These include raffle prizes for local schools and churches, among others, and appeals or charities that are particularly close to our heart. Examples are The Fishermen’s Mission, Marathon for Leukaemia UK, The Roundhouse Trust, The Royal Hospital Chelsea and The National Youth Theatre.
