Our second donation to the Children's Food Trust!

As you may already know, we support the Children's Food Trust by giving them a donation for every item we sell. You may recall we handed over our first cheque back in January, which was for a whopping £8000. 

Well. We've done it again! Donation number two - a cheque for £6000 - was presented to Rob Rees, Chairman of the Children's Food Trust, a few days ago by our Sales and Marketing Director Lee Vines.

Lee said: “Over recent months we’ve cleared out a backlog of hire kit that has been replaced or upgraded as a result of stock bought by us to facilitate large scale events. We’ve made this surplus stock available to caterers at great prices – and made a donation for every piece of kit sold – so everyone wins.”

Rob said: “We’re delighted PKL has supported us with another donation. The Trust’s work, in encouraging more children, schools and parents around the country to have a positive experience with food is hugely important. This will help us reach more schools and more children in 2013.”

The Children's Food Trust is a national charity which aims to get children eating better, and its work includes developing healthy school menus and cooking skills with children.

A huge thank you to all our lovely customers for helping make this donation possible! We're continuing to put donations in the pot ready for the next cheque now, so keep buying your equipment from us!

International School Meals Day

As you may already know, we are huge fans of the Children's Food Trust, and give them a donation for every item we sell. We think that good nutrition for children is really important, so when the Children's Food Trust announced that they are backing International School Meals Day this Friday, we decided to help spread the word too!

One of the things that can help schools to provide fab school meals is having access to proper, good-quality catering equipment. Catering equipment can be very expensive to buy new though, and budgets are often tight, so we always offer great prices to schools on our lovely second-hand commercial equipment. We've already given a number of schools great deals on equipment, so if you know a school who is in dire need of some catering equipment, send them our way!

To read more about our link with the Children's Food Trust, and to see all the items we currently have in stock, visit our website here.
 

Our first donation to the Children's Food Trust!

As you may already know, we entered into a partnership with the Children's Food Trust last year and agreed to make a donation to them for every item we sell. Well, we've sold loads of items over the past few months, so we are very excited to announce that we've just handed over our first cheque to them... for £8000!!

The Children’s Food Trust is a national charity which exists to protect every child’s right to eat better and, so, to do better. Their work includes developing healthy school menus and cooking skills with children. Our parent company PKL has worked with the Children’s Food Trust on a number of projects recently, so here at Mid West, we couldn't wait to get involved too!

With our lovely ex-hire equipment selling so well, Lee Vines, our sales and marketing director, was able to present a cheque for £8000 to the Children’s Food Trust at their offices in Sheffield.

“We are very happy to support the Children’s Food Trust with this donation,” said Lee. “Their work, in encouraging more children, schools and parents around the country to have a positive experience with food is very important. We also hope that many schools benefited by being able to buy this ex-hire equipment at heavily discounted prices. School catering managers can now provide more for their students that they wouldn’t have been able to do otherwise.”

Children's Food Trust Chief Executive, Judy Hargadon, said, "This donation will help us reach even more children - whether through our research programme, our work to improve food in early years settings and in schools, or our work to help even more children learn to cook."

If you've bought any equipment from us over the past few months, then a hearty (but not too violent) slap on the back to you for playing your part! Our agreement with the Children's Food Trust is still in place, so if you buy any equipment from us now, money will go into the pot towards the next cheque..!