Throughout the year we support hundreds of charities helping the homeless by giving our unsold sandwiches to them at the end of each day. The Pret Charity Run operates LPG vans that deliver over 12,000 fresh meals to numerous shelters in London every week. Many charities across the UK collect directly from our shops at the end of each day, too.

In total, Pret donates over 2.4 million products to charities for the homeless across the UK every year. It's much better our natural food goes to people who really need it at the end of the day and not in the bin.

We prefer to work on long-term arrangements with charities to ensure that as much food gets to the homeless as possible. Over 90% of our shops in the UK give their food to a homeless charity, but tragically a few do not, due to their location or because we struggle to find volunteers to collect from them.

In this situation, registered charities who are interested in collecting our unsold food on a long-term basis can call our Pret Foundation Manager, Giovanna Pasini, on 020 7932 5425.