King Charles’ launched two food distribution hubs — designed to cut waste and support charities that help those who are hungry– as part of his 76th birthday celebration on Thursday.
Last year, the king who has been an outspoken campaigner on environmental issues and supporter of a sustainable economy, launched the ‘Coronation Food Project’, as part of his mission to ‘bridge the gap between food waste and food need’.
For Thursday’s celebration, the monarch opened the initiative’s first two food hubs – distribution centres designed to save and circulate tonnes of surplus food.
Their aim of the Food Hub is to make it easier for food charities like FareShare and the Felix Project to provide support for those in need, according to a Buckingham palace statement.
The palace added that since the launch of the scheme, the project had helped save an extra 940 tonnes of surplus food which was to the equivalent of more than 2.2 million meal portions.
