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The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation

The Stop Hunger Foundation is a registered charity that has been operating in the UK and Ireland since 2005 to help fight food insecurity and its root causes.

Stop Hunger Foundation's 2025 report

Our commitment: Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation will, by 2030, have supported 12.5 million people in our local communities.

Through the Foundation, we strive for local impact in the communities we serve, offering grants, hands-on volunteering and skills transfer to a network of charity partners who direct our support to where they see the greatest need.

Stop Hunger was created by, and owes its success to, Sodexo colleagues, who are vital to the Foundation. Each Sodexo colleague is empowered to use up to three of their working days each year for volunteering or fundraising activities to support the Foundation. It is also dependent on working in partnership with our clients, supply partners and a host of national and hyperlocal charities.

20 years of Stop Hunger:

working to fight food insecurity

Welcoming Asma Khan as the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation’s first patron.

World-renowned chef and women’s empowerment advocate, Asma Khan, will be supporting the charity throughout its 20th anniversary year in its mission to tackle food insecurity and generate meaningful positive impact on local communities across the UK and Ireland.

Asma is one of the world’s most prominent female chefs and a UN World Food Programme advocate. She is passionate about female empowerment, championing women from diverse backgrounds through her restaurant, the Darjeeling Express in London, which is the only all-female Indian kitchen in the world.

Asma Khan shares her mission, her role, and why empowering women is so critical for positive change

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“It is an honour to collaborate with the Stop Hunger Foundation, an organisation whose mission deeply resonates with me.
The fight against food insecurity has been a cause close to my heart for as long as I can remember.
I look forward to working alongside the Foundation, its partners, and the dedicated team at Sodexo to support causes that matter profoundly to me.
Together, I hope we can make significant strides in this invaluable work throughout 2025.”

Asma KhanSodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Patron

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Happy Birthday Stop Hunger Foundation!

To celebrate 20 years of Stop Hunger, we asked 20 of our colleagues and charity partners what Stop Hunger means to them. Watch the video to find out what they had to say.

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Stop Hunger Annual Report 2025

We are committed to transparency and accountability, diligently reporting against our commitments.

In our latest Stop Hunger Annual Report, we share the impact the Foundation has made with and in the local communities that need it the most.

View the flipbook above or download the report as a PDF.

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A holistic approach to creating lasting local impact

In recent years, the Foundation has developed its activities to provide support beyond food aid, working with charities who tackle issues such as illiteracy and job skills to help create longer-term solutions to food insecurity.

By 2030, the Foundation aims to have supported more than 12.5 million direct and indirect beneficiaries* – a total of 2 million during the five-year period of the Pledge, through working with a diverse range of charity partners, supporting national and regional projects, large and small. As the Foundation’s strategy continues to evolve, we anticipate having a more transformational impact with a smaller number of beneficiaries.

_{* Direct beneficiaries receive the benefit of our programme first hand, indirect beneficiaries are those who benefit from the support/training given to direct beneficiaries.}

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Learn about the four pillars of Stop Hunger's mission:

Meaningful volunteering
Our volunteering policy entitles Sodexo colleagues to dedicate three days to charitable activities, maximising their impact on local causes.
Volunteering video
Partnerships
We connect our extensive Sodexo network with charity partners, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Partnerships video
Fundraising
Stop Hunger relies on fundraising from Sodexo and its partners to address as many needs as possible in the local communities. Thanks to the support of Sodexo, 100% of the funds that are raised by Stop Hunger go to our charity partners.
Fundraising video
Grants giving
The Foundation supports charities tackling food insecurity and its root causes with project and core-cost grants. Our grants giving programme aims to address charities' critical needs, build capacity, create lasting change and empower communities.
Grants giving fundraising

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Join us in the fight against food insecurity

Donate to Stop Hunger

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Latest Stop Hunger news and insights

Asma Khan to chair Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation’s new Community Advisory Board
Chairing a new Community Advisory Board
World Hunger Day’s theme this year is ‘The End of Hunger is in Our Hands’
Building the bridge to end hunger
Record year for Sodexo Stop Hunger’s National Volunteers’ Week activity
Over 1,000 volunteer hours recorded
Stop Hunger Foundation has provided vital funding to SE Kitchen
Supporting opening of social supermarket
Asma Khan, on how empowering women helps address food insecurity.
Supporting women to stop hunger
Asma Khan joins the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation as patron
Asma Khan, first patron of Stop Hunger
Sodexo Health & Care donates over 330,000 meals
Supporting The Bread and Butter Thing
Enactus’ Outstanding Contribution of a Coach Award’ for Ian Gribben
Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation celebrates
Sodexo Stop Hunger support to SSAFA reaches half a million
Supporting SSAFA