Rod Stewart’s spouse Penny Lancaster has pleaded with followers to assist feed hungry youngsters throughout the college holidays. The 54-year-old mum of two is throwing her assist behind The Felix Mission, who provide needy and struggling households with meals. Nonetheless, the star is worried that some households might fall by means of the cracks throughout the college holidays and urged her followers to assist the charity. Posting an image to Instagram of two individuals from the charity delivering meals she wrote: “Each week @thefelixproject offers meals to over 170 colleges throughout London, who then give it to folks to assist them cowl the prices of feeding their household. However what occurs throughout the holidays?

“Proper now, colleges are closed in order that assist will not be there, and free college meals are additionally not obtainable. All of it provides as much as additional monetary pressures on household budgets, a lot of whom are already struggling. For these households and their youngsters holidays equal starvation,” she penned.

“In London, Felix is doing all it could actually to assist, with 50% of the group organisations they assist experiencing elevated demand throughout this time, they’re stepping up and placing on a whole bunch of additional deliveries together with to twenty-eight colleges who’re staying open this summer season!

“However they want extra assist. Please donate to their summer season enchantment, £45 permits Felix to rescue sufficient meals to feed three youngsters all through the varsity vacation. Assist The Felix Mission feed households and make holidays equal happiness not starvation!” she implored.

Based on the charity’s web site as much as 98,000 youngsters in London might expertise starvation throughout the summer season vacation within the absence of college dinners.

They purpose to stop this by rescuing prime quality, surplus meals that may in any other case go to waste and redistributing it to over 1,200 group organisations throughout the capital.

“We rescue good, surplus meals from the meals trade that can’t be bought and would in any other case go to waste and ship it to a whole bunch of meals banks, charities, main colleges and vacation programmes in London,” they clarify on their web site.

“That is high-quality and nutritious, with the bulk being contemporary fruit and greens. We acquire or obtain meals from a whole bunch of suppliers, together with supermarkets, wholesalers, farms, eating places, and our meals reaches weak youngsters and households, the homeless, the aged and those that merely can not afford to purchase common, wholesome meals.

“Final yr, we gave out the equal of 38M meals to over 1,200 group organisations and colleges throughout each London borough.

“50% of our rescued meals is delivered to group organisations inside the prime 5 most disadvantaged neighbourhoods within the capital,” they stated.