ICG, the global alternative asset manager, today announced the fifth season of its successful “Million Meals” initiative.
Since its inception in 2022, Million Meals has provided nearly 5 million meals to people affected by food poverty and the cost-of-living crisis globally. To date, the campaign has provided over £2.3m of funding to partner charities around the world, in cities where ICG has major operations. Earlier this year, it was recognised at the 2026 Better Society Awards, winning the Major Project of the Year Award.
In its fifth year, the campaign will seek to deliver a further 2 million meals through a record level of funding for the initiative (£700,000). Alongside funding direct meal provision, the initiative will also invest in the critical infrastructure and data capabilities that help food distribution charities to operate effectively and strengthen their long-term impact. This includes funding to support:
- Expanded refrigeration capacity at City Harvest London to respond to growing need across London.
- The organisational development of Banque Alimentaire Luxembourg a.s.bl. to strengthen organisational capacity, management of growing volumes of surplus food and to support sustainable long-term growth.
- The rollout of FEBA’s Unified Data Framework across its European network, enabling food banks across Europe to collect consistent, credible data, strengthen collaboration and demonstrate their impact more effectively.
During the fifth season, ICG will be renewing partnerships with seven organisations and adding new partnerships with Grassroots Grocery (New York) and Cook for Good (London):
Existing partnerships to be renewed
- City Harvest London (London)
- Felix (UK-wide)
- City Harvest New York (New York)
- Eat Up (Sydney)
- European Food Banks Federation (FEBA – pan-European)
- Food from the Heart (Singapore)
- Feeding Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
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- Cook for Good (London)
- Grassroots Grocery (New York)
Building on previous years, ICG will also be providing practical support to its partners by creating opportunities for its nearly 700 employees to volunteer. Last year, nearly 30% of all ICG employees volunteered with a Million Meals partner.
The ICG Million Meals initiative reflects the firm’s purpose and values, and its commitment to reducing inequality across a range of social needs.
Antje Hensel-Roth, Chief People & External Affairs Officer at ICG, commented:
We are delighted to continue our successful Million Meals campaign for a fifth consecutive year, with an ambitious target of supporting the delivery of two million meals. This year, we are building on the campaign by investing not only in food provision, but also in the infrastructure and data capabilities that can help food banks operate more effectively and strengthen their long-term impact. The campaign continues to provide much-needed support to people experiencing food insecurity, while giving our colleagues the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the communities where we live and work. This multi-faceted commitment to supporting our partners reflects ICG’s values and culture, and our ongoing commitment to creating lasting positive impact through our social investment programme.
For further information please contact:
ICG
Fiona Laffan
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About City Harvest London
City Harvest addresses the issues of food poverty and food waste across London. Established in 2014, the charity rescues nutritious surplus food from food manufacturers, suppliers, producers and retailers, and delivers it, for free, to a network of over 350 community partners across London feeding people facing food poverty.
Every week, the charity rescues over 120 tonnes of surplus food from the food industry. They sort and package it in their Acton warehouse and two satellite market sites, and their vans distribute the food to City Harvest’s network of community partners across 30 London boroughs. These partners include homeless shelters, food banks, domestic abuse refuges, children’s programmes such as breakfast clubs and after-school clubs, youth hostels, centres for the elderly, and more.
Through their community partners, City Harvest’s food reaches c133,000 people in need per week, including children and young people, elderly people, families, people on low incomes, homeless people, refugees, and those facing mental health or substance abuse issues.
Operating six days a week, City Harvest provides 1.2 million meals per month to Londoners in need.
https://www.cityharvest.org.uk/
About City Harvest NY
City Harvest is New York City’s first and largest food rescue organization—nourishing people, strengthening communities, and protecting the planet. We rescue nutritious, high-quality food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it for free to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens, community partners, and our own Mobile Markets® across the five boroughs.
In response to the urgent and high demand for food assistance and our commitment to sustainability, this year we will rescue 100 million pounds of food and deliver it to New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity. With deep connections to the communities where we work and with a focus on localized investment, City Harvest strengthens our agency partners and the local food system through capacity building, advocacy, and nutrition education. Through our food rescue model, we support environmental health by preventing millions of kilograms of CO2 from entering the atmosphere while providing New Yorkers with the food they need to thrive. Named one of America’s Top 100 Charities by Forbes and recognized as a leading equity-driven organization, City Harvest has provided more than one billion pounds of food to our neighbors in need since our founding in 1982.
About Cook for Good
Cook for Good is a social enterprise based on a housing estate in Kings Cross. Established in 2019, we are working to tackle food insecurity, health inequality, social isolation and barriers to work, through a programme which includes free cooking classes, community meals, training and work experience, and a surplus food pantry. We also run an annual six-month programme, Cook for Change, which teaches food-based community leaders and entrepreneurs how to create and develop their own sustainable social enterprises. The programme is largely funded by the profits from our cooking-based teambuilding events, which see corporate groups coming in to cook meals to share with the local community.
About Eat Up Sydney
Eat Up’s mission is to feed hungry kids so they can learn, grow and succeed. Eat Up is the first and only Australian Not-For-Profit to provide free lunches to hungry students nationally. By providing nourishment to disadvantaged students at school, Eat Up improves their engagement in the classroom so they can better take advantage of learning opportunities, succeed in education and ultimately, have a brighter future. Partnering with a range of organisations and businesses enables Eat Up to sustainably provide free, healthy lunches for school children on a large scale. Eat Up currently supports students at 1,300 schools in both metro and regional areas around the country. Each week, Eat Up engages with hundreds of volunteers to prepare the thousands of lunches it delivers. This provides a valuable opportunity for community organisations, regional groups, workplaces, school students and individuals to contribute in a direct and meaningful way to end hunger in schools.
About European Food Banks Federation
Established in 1986, the European Food Banks Federation (FEBA) is a European non-profit organisation based in Brussels and works in collaboration with 25 Full Members and 3 Associate Members in European countries, bringing together more than 480 Food Banks. In 2025 alone, the movement served 13 million people by distributing over 860,000 tonnes of food. FEBA represents and advocates for its membership at European and international level; supports and strengthens Food Banks. FEBA also provides training to build expertise and peer to peer learning across the network, sharing best practice and knowledge, ensuring efficiency and sharing of innovation wherever possible and fostering the development of Food Banks where they are most needed. FEBA has grown to become Europe’s largest and leading food banking network in Europe, thanks to the development of partnerships with corporations, foundations and civil society for over 40 years.
About Felix
Founded in 2026 following the merger of FareShare and The Felix Project, Felix saves great food and gets it to people who need it across all four nations of the UK. Working with supermarkets, restaurants, wholesalers, manufacturers and farmers, Felix gets surplus food where it’s needed most, supporting 8,000 charities and community groups and reaching 1.5 million people each year.
Felix is about more than just meals. The charities and community groups it supports provide connection, dignity and hope, helping people eat, connect and access vital support. Felix turns an environmental problem into a social opportunity, rescuing food that would otherwise go to waste and helping create fuller plates, fuller communities and fuller lives.
With 18,000 volunteers working together across the UK, Felix delivers five meals every second to people across the country. Its work helps tackle food insecurity while supporting charities and local groups at the heart of their communities.
About Food From The Heart, Singapore
Food from the Heart is a charity founded in February 2003 by Singapore-based Austrian couple Henry and Christine Laimer, who were inspired to channel surplus food from bakeries to families in need after they read an article about bread wastage.
Today, Food from the Heart is one of Singapore’s foremost independent food charity with IPC status devoted to alleviating hunger through efficient distribution of food in a sustainable manner; and making a significant impact in food waste reduction. Food from the Heart helps thousands of lives each year by garnering support from sponsors, donors and volunteers to fight hunger through its five core programmes: Bread Run, Community Food Pack, Project Belanja!, School Goodie Bag, and Market Place.
The organisation also hosts major fundraising events such as Passion Ball, Charity Golf Tournament, and Heart on Wheels. With the support of donors, food industry partners and more than 10,000 volunteers, Food from the Heart made a difference to the lives of close to 60,000 people throughout Singapore, distributing S$7.42 million worth of food in 2023.
https://www.foodfromtheheart.sg
About Feeding Hong Kong
Feeding Hong Kong is a local registered charity, established in 2011, with a mission to save quality surplus food from going to landfills while delivering food security in Hong Kong. We do this through delivering a B2B logistics service, which links food companies with surplus stock, to frontline charities directly serving the community. We are Hong Kong’s sole accredited member of the Global Food Banking Network.
About Grassroots Grocery
Grassroots Grocery is a New York City nonprofit building stronger communities through food, powered by neighbours helping neighbours. It makes it easy and enjoyable for people to help while expanding dignified access to healthy food.
Through its weekly Produce Parties, volunteers deliver fresh produce rescued from wholesale produce markets to community-led distribution sites across the Bronx and Harlem. Its Great Sandwich Race brings companies and groups together to make sandwiches for local community partners. Together, these programmes get food to people who need it and give more people an easy and meaningful way to help.
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