ICG, the global alternative asset manager, today announced a fourth season of its successful “Million Meals” initiative. Since its inception in November 2022, Million Meals has provided 3.5 million meals to people in need due to the cost of living crisis and food poverty. This season’s target is to deliver an additional 1.5 million meals, bringing the total of the initiative to 5 million meals delivered. To date, the campaign has provided total funding of £1.7m to our partner charities around the world, in cities in which ICG has major operations.
This season of Million Meals will provide £670,000, a record level in new funding, and will run from November 2025 to April 2026. The charities ICG is partnering with to provide this critical support are:
- City Harvest (London)
- City Harvest (New York)
- European Food Banks Federation (pan-European)
- Eat Up (Sydney)
- Felix Project (UK)
- Food from the Heart (Singapore)
- Feeding Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
In line with prior years, these charitable partnerships will also offer significant volunteering opportunities to ICG’s 680+ employees worldwide. Last year, approximately a quarter of ICG employees volunteered with Million Meals partner charities.
The ICG Million Meals initiative reflects the firm’s purpose and values, and its commitment to reducing inequality across a range of social needs. In June 2025, ICG announced a further £4m investment over the next three years to its flagship charitable programme, focused on educational opportunity and social mobility, which originally launched in 2022.
Antje Hensel-Roth, Chief People & External Affairs Officer at ICG, commented:
We are delighted to continue our Million Meals campaign for a fourth consecutive year. Through working with a range of high-impact charity partners based in cities across the globe, our record-level funding will provide much needed support to those experiencing food poverty due to the ongoing cost of living crisis. Our financial investment is complemented by volunteering opportunities for all employees, through which our people can tangibly give back to their local community. Our target to hit 1.5 million meals this season and 5 million overall is just one aspect of our ambitious social investment programme, which demonstrates ICG’s values and purpose.
For further information please contact:
ICG
Fiona Laffan
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About ICG
ICG (LSE: ICG) is a global alternative asset manager with $123bn* in AUM and more than three decades of experience generating attractive returns. We operate from over 20 locations globally and invest our clients’ capital across Structured Capital; Private Equity Secondaries; Private Debt; Credit; and Real Assets. Our exceptional people originate differentiated opportunities, invest responsibly, and deliver long-term value. We partner with management teams, founders, and business owners in a creative and solutions-focused approach, supporting them with our expertise and flexible capital. For more information visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn.
*As at 30 June 2025.
About City Harvest London
Est. 2014, City Harvest London rescues nutritious surplus food from manufacturers, suppliers, producers and retailers, and delivers, for free, to 375+ London charities feeding those facing food poverty. City Harvest rescues food, people, and planet by preventing food waste, providing life-changing support to communities in every London borough through food, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste.
City Harvest believes in the right to food and is passionate that, in this day and age, every child should have access to fresh nutritious food to thrive and not simply survive. City Harvest is a supporter of the Free School Meals campaign. We want to ensure no child goes hungry and we encourage food partners to use our networks to make a huge difference. By delivering to food banks, community centres and school programmes we try to make sure we help fill the gaps all year round.
City Harvest vans equally deliver to homeless shelters, hostels, soup kitchens, mental health charities, projects supporting the elderly and socially isolated, social pantries, community kitchens, refugee hostels, nurseries, family centres and domestic abuse refuges.
City Harvest tripled in size in 2020 to meet the demand of people facing food poverty. Now distributing free food for more than 1.2 million meals a month the need continues to rise as the cost of living tightens its grip.
https://www.cityharvest.org.uk
About City Harvest NY
City Harvest is New York’s first and largest food rescue organization, helping to feed millions of New Yorkers who struggle to put meals on their tables. During our 40 years serving New Yorkers in need, we have rescued more than one billion pounds of fresh, nutritious food and delivered it—free of charge—to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens, community partners, and our own Mobile Markets® across the five boroughs.
This year, we will rescue and distribute more than 75 million pounds of nutritious food to our neighbors in need. City Harvest works alongside our community partners to boost community capacity, expand nutrition education, and strengthen local food systems. Since our founding in 1982, City Harvest has always been there to feed our city—one day, one meal, one New Yorker at a time.
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 24 Full Members and 6 Associate Members in European countries, bringing together more than 300 Food Banks. FEBA represents its membership at European and international level; supports and strengthens Food Banks in Europe by providing training, sharing best practice and knowledge, building expertise, and ensuring efficiency, and developing partnerships with corporations, foundations, and other organisations; and fosters the development and creation of Food Banks where they are most needed.
About Eat Up Sydney
Eat Up is Australia’s only organisation providing free lunches to students on a national scale. To date, we have provided over 3.7 million lunches to Aussie kids in need! With the help of our partners and dedicated volunteers, each week, Eat Up makes and delivers over 30,000 lunches directly to schools for vulnerable children.
About Feeding Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Feeding Hong Kong is a Hong Kong registered charity established in 2011. Our mission is to save quality surplus food going to landfills while delivering food security in Hong Kong. We also work to raise awareness about food waste, food security and food banking in the city. We are Hong Kong’s sole accredited member of the Global Food Banking Network, an international organisation dedicated to creating and strengthening food banks and national food bank networks.
About Felix Project UK
The Felix Project believes in a vision of a London where good food is never wasted and no-one goes hungry. And together, we believe we can win the fight against food waste and hunger in London.
We rescue good, surplus food from the food industry that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste and deliver it to hundreds of food banks, charities, primary schools and holiday programmes in London.
This is high-quality and nutritious, with the majority being fresh fruit and vegetables. We collect or receive food from hundreds of suppliers, including supermarkets, wholesalers, farms, restaurants, and our food reaches vulnerable children and families, the homeless, the elderly and those who simply cannot afford to buy regular, healthy food.
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.
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 more than 59,500 people throughout Singapore, distributing S$7.22 million worth of food in 2021.
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