Innovative industrial placement portal, Workscan, formed a partnership with City Harvest that saw the charity utilise Workscan’s distribution network to provide 1,230 meals to those most in need at Christmas. The new partnership was put in place to support the charity’s Rescue Someone’s Christmas campaign.
Based in Acton, City Harvest provides surplus food through a sustainable distribution network that operates with over 350 charities, food banks, schools and community groups across the capital.
The Christmas donation included 450 chicken curry and rice meals, 360 cottage pies, 240 macaroni and cheese, and 180 vegetable lasagnes, sent out to those individuals most in need at Christmas.
This new initiative was just part of Workscan’s commitment to creating a brighter tomorrow. Launching early 2022, the pioneering portal was designed to help students secure relevant job placement opportunities through a dedicated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. The innovative portal will verify each employer while also allowing educational bodies and employers to create courses and assign them to students directly within the portal. Workscan will also enable these users to host online and offline webinars and events, as well as act as a communication hub.
Speaking on the partnership, Workscan CEO and Founder Ioannis Antypas said:
“The last few years have been incredibly challenging for all of us, but none more so than for those individuals who are most in need. That is why we wanted to give back to our local community this Christmas, and we were honoured to be working with such a respected charity as City Harvest.”
Dan McAlpine, Head of Food at City Harvest, said:
“City Harvest and Workscan have developed a fantastic partnership to allow hundreds of Londoners access to food over the Christmas period. The generosity of Workscan’s donation, coupled with City Harvest’s rapid response outreach to 350-plus charities, is how City Harvest ‘rescued Christmas’ for so many people facing food poverty.”
For more information on Workscan, visit www.workscan.io/
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Further information on the work City Harvest undertakes can be found via www.cityharvest.org.uk/