Palmers Ale House and Kitchen in Long Sutton hopes to support World Central Kitchen and help ‘feed the world’
A pub team is hoping to raise funds for an aid organisation – after seven of the group’s volunteers were killed in an airstrike in Gaza.
The Palmers Ale House and Kitchen in Long Sutton felt moved to hold a fundraising event on Friday (April 26), to donate money towards World Central Kitchen, following an attack which took place on Monday, April 1.
The event will include a three course meal and tickets will cost £40 each. All of the money raised will be given to the non-profit organisation, which will be used to support their future work and feeding people around the world.
Sophie Holden, who is the landlady at the Palmers Ale House and Kitchen, said: “Things in the hospitality trade are very difficult at the moment and it is easy to get focused on our own problems, but there are many millions of people all over the world who are in a real crisis.
“We want to use the small platform that we have to raise some money to support World Central Kitchen and the thousands they work with.”
World Central Kitchen works on the front lines to provide meals in response to climate and community crises. The seven victims of the Israeli airstrike included British, Australian and Polish citizens - and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that his military hit ‘innocent people’ in an attack that was labelled as unintentional and tragic.
Palmers chef Kate Ahrens added: “We were so impressed with the ethos of World Central Kitchen. It’s founder Jose Andres, has built an organisation that not only works to feed people in crisis fast, but also works in tandem with the people who are directly affected to bring them the food they actually want - comfort food that can bring familiarity and comfort to traumatised people as well as just basic nutrition.
“We have always been committed to food as a social and community experience and we wanted to find a way to make a contribution, however small, to support the work that World Central Kitchen does.”
The pub will be serving up dishes to visitors using the World Central Kitchen Cookbook which includes a selection of recipes sourced from areas the organisation has worked over the years.
Tickets for the event can be purchased by calling the pub on 01406 365554.
