Hospitality continues to support Ukraine with fundraisers, donations and boycotts - here's how you can help too

The staff Canteen wants to help spread the message of those in the industry who are doing amazing things to help Ukraine in these trying times

As the war in Ukraine claims more lives by the day, and government action taking longer than one might hope to help people, it can be hard to know what to do.

We want to highlight the positive initiatives that hospitality professionals are doing to help support the people of Ukraine, encouraging others to join them.

Fundraising Events

• On April 27th, as part of the Marylebone Food Festival, Marylebone Village hosted Ottolenghi Test Kitchen duo Noor Murad and Jake Norman to run a charity cook along to raise money for #cookforukraine. Tickets went on sale on Monday and cost £165 per person. The event, which was half supper-club and half class, ran from 10am - 12:30am for the 12 ticket holders.
• On April 5th over 1,000 hospitality professionals participated in the Lunch4Ukraine fundraising event which has currently raised £176,000 for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Ukraine Appeal. Chef Nigel Boschetti of JW Marriott Grosvenor House London - the location the lunch took place - and Richard Corrigan of Corrigan's Mayfair oversaw the event. 

Along with the lunch, additional funds were raised by the launch of the Hospitality Auction4Ukraine, giving people the chance to bid for a number of hospitality experiences.

• Simon Boyle along, with guest chef Yurii Kovryzhenko from Ukraine, have set up the Feast for Relief fundraiser on April 9th. Tickets for this event are £65 per person or £500 for a table of ten with the money being donated to help feed those sheltering in Ukraine. Along with the six-course meal, there will also be guest speakers discussing their experiences leaving Ukraine.
• Bob Bob Ricard City, in London, which is owned and run by Russian-born Leonid Shutov hosted a fundraising dinner on Sunday 13th March in support of the Ukraine effort. At current the exact amount raised is not known.

In addition to this, £1 from every bill at Bob Bob Ricard Soho and Bob Bob Richard City will be donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross for the foreseeable future.

• Phil Howard, Rebecca Mascarenhas and their teams and hospitality colleagues, including Tomos Parry from Brat, raised £135,000 through their special fundraising dinners ‘Eat Out to Help Out Ukraine’ on March 14th at Elystan Street, Church Road, Kitchen W8, Home SW15 and Flour + Water. They were able to raise this amount thanks to support from Coutts Bank, which matched the funds raised £ for £. This was then donated to DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

• Nieves Barragan of Sabor, Lisa Allen of Northcote, Tom Kerridge of the Kerridge group, Angela Hartnett OBE from Murano, Neil Borthwick of The French House, and Ed Wilson from Brawn joined together to create the event ‘Five for Ukraine’. The chefs joined forces to lay on a sumptuous five-course banquet at Barbourn, Shoreditch. The event raised £70,000 for critical food, water and medical assistance to refugees fleeing the crisis.
• NQ64, a late-night retro arcade bar, has raised over £6,000 for the Disasters Emergency Committee in its recent 'Game for Ukraine' charity drive that was held across all seven of the brand's venues. The charity event utilised the arcade games by giving the revenue from the sale of all the game tokens for the entire Sunday 20th March to the Ukraine appeal. In just one day the seven venues raised £6,397 for the DEC

Donations to Ukraine

• The Evening Standard and it's sister publication the Independant, with the help of stars and celebritities such as Angela Harnett, has so far rasied £40,000 through its Evening Standard Ukraine Appeal. This money will go towards the Disasters Emergency Committee's work in Urkaine.
• The Piano Works in Farringdon has called on operators to join The UK's Hospitality Ukraine appeal, requesting that operators offer diners the option to donate a discretionary £1 per person. The Piano Works will go one step further and will match their own guest’s donations with an equal £1 per cover. If every customer opts in, they state they could raise over £2,000 every week matching that to raise it to £4k per week.
• Los Mochis, a Mexican/Japanese restaurant in London, donated 100 per cent of its dinner service revenue on Monday 7th March to The Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal. Along with this, the restaurant has also said it will be boycotting Russian vodka and switching to Ukrainian brand Nemiroff to further show solidarity. This is similar to decisions made by the bar group Arc Inspirations.
• A number of other operators have committed to donating proceeds from sales of chicken Kyiv, named after Ukraine's capital city, to support aid efforts. These include Il Portico in Kensington, which has not only put the item back on the menu for the first time in 40 years but is also donating £5 from every order to the Red Cross in Ukraine.
• London-based cocktail bar and restaurant group Drake & Morgan will be donating £1 from every Kyiv dish sold to the British Red Cross’s Ukrainian Crisis Appeal.
• #CookforUkraine started as an idea between Ukrainian-born Olia Hercules and her long time friend Alissa Timoshkina, but they soon reached out to Clerkenwell Boy and soon the fundraiser and social media campaign were in motion. It aims to raise both money and awareness for Ukraine through a hashtag and a Just giving page. You can find out more here: @cookforukraine.

 

 

 

 

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• British pub group Brewhouse & Kitchen has pledged to donate 100 per cent of the revenue gained from the first batch of its new seasonal cask beer, which launched on March