On the 14th March 2020, a heartbreaking image of an elderly gentleman standing amidst stripped supermarket shelves did the rounds on social media. Spurred into action by this stark reality, from this moment we felt our role shift and it became our duty to get food to vulnerable people up & down the country. We decided to launch a  ‘Pasta Care Package’ in partnership with Age UK, the UK’s leading charity for older people. The concept was simple, yet effective: whenever customers ordered and sent the kit of three recipes to the door of someone who really needed it, the charity received a £5 donation from us.

When lockdown hit, our co-founder Finn relayed the challenges his father Mark Lagun, an award-winning restauranteur in Newcastle, was facing to the team. We decided we needed to do something to support food businesses which were most acutely affected by Covid-19. With the hospitality industry on its knees around us, we set to work mapping out a campaign of chef-collaborations under the hashtag #RallyForRestaurants, where 20 percent of profits from each dish would be donated to the restaurant involved. To date, we are proud to have launched regional recipe collaborations in support of six wonderful neighbourhood restaurants who share our faith in fresh philosophy - Norma London, Maremma Brixton, Wild by Tart, Enoteca Rabezzana, Leggero and Mark Lagun's The Earl of Pitt Street

At the peak of the pandemic, it was an honour to be able to nourish our amazing NHS doctors & nurses in the best way we know how: with a supply of fresh pasta! We are eternally grateful for the frontline workers who have and continue to work tirelessly and heroically so as to nurse our society through these bleak times. We hope our food was able to bring a smile at the end of a long shift to those that so need and deserve it.

Did you know the vast majority of pumpkins actually end up in landfill - right after October 31st? That’s why, this Halloween, we created a series of “wonky” pasta dishes, made from pumpkin flesh that would otherwise be wasted, with £1 from each dish sold donated to support leading food waste charity FareShare. FareShare is the UK’s longest running food redistribution charity. Born out of the belief that no good food should go to waste, especially when people are going hungry, they take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups. Every week they provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people. 

Mind are a charity who provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. We are donating £5 per "Pasta Care" Package sold  to Mind in support of their mission to be there for everyone who needs help during this mental health emergency we are experiencing.