Feeding Communities

Exeter Cathedral School and their catering partners, Thomas Franks, provided breakfast to their neighbour and local homeless charity, St Petrock’s.

Aims

Supporting the Thomas Franks Feeding Communities initiative, which aims to help eradicate food poverty, chef Adrian Kirby and the team at ECS have volunteered to provide 100 breakfasts a week during the Lent term 2021 lockdown period. 

Working in the ECS kitchens, the team prepare the hot breakfasts including all your usual favourites: bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs and hash browns! They then deliver them across the Cathedral Green to St Petrock’s.

Background

ECS pupils already work with the local charity, that supports people who are homeless or vulnerably housed, with donations from their annual Harvest Festival. Staff from St Petrock’s gave a series of virtual assemblies to the pupils before Christmas to talk about the work that they do and the impact of the pandemic on the support they can offer.

Resources

As the School site remained open for children of Critical Workers, the fantastic Thomas Franks catering team were keen to help out and stepped up to the challenge of providing support to some of those that have been hardest hit by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Impact

The School and Thomas Franks are proud to support St Petrock’s in any way they can and look forward to expanding their Feeding Communities project in the local area.