Feed the 5000

Join a free lunch on 16 December made from delicious ingredients that would otherwise have been wasted, and highlight the unimaginable levels of food waste in the UK and internationally.

Diganta, one, being fed 'suji' (wheat porridge) by his aunt. Diganta is malnourished and at risk of being stunted. Nearly half of all children under the age of five in Bangladesh are malnourished.

Save the Children is part of 'Feeding the 5000', a (non-religious) stunt to highlight the massive amount of food that gets wasted in the UK (worth £12 billion).

Join us on Wednesday 16 December by going to Trafalgar Square and claiming your free lunch, which will be made from the tonnes of produce that are ‘outgraded’ for being cosmetically imperfect and are normally wasted, although they’re still good to eat.

The facts

The bread and other cereal products thrown away by UK households alone could lift 30 million of the world’s hungry people out of malnourishment.
UK Households waste 25% of all the food they buy.

If we stopped wasting so much money on food that we throw away, we would liberate resources that could be used to help save millions of children from starvation.

The event

There'll be a special Make Your Mark (and turn it into a vegetable) stall, celebrity chefs, speeches by the Bishop of London, and most importantly a big lunch!

12.30-2pm Wednesday 16 December

Trafalgar Square, London