Food for Thought

 

Laura Cox, Head of Media Relations at Tube Lines, has been cooking up a storm with The Food Chain. With seven different sites in London, The Food Chain is one of the biggest organisations of its kind, providing food and nutrition services to people who are chronically ill as a result of HIV related diseases and to their carers.

 

Working at the site in Tooting, Laura, who lives in Balham, often gets up at the crack of dawn to join the team of cooks at 8am on Sundays. They prepare a hot main meal, dessert and evening snack for over 50 service users. The food is delivered by a separate team. Every Sunday teams cook a range of dishes to meet the needs of people with special dietary requirements and to tempt people with different tastes in cuisine.

 

After volunteering at the Tooting kitchen for over a year Laura decided that it was time to put in an application to the Community Support Fund. Funded by Tube Lines’ recycling efforts, the Community Support Fund provides Tube Lines employees with up to £300 per year to help them with any fundraising or volunteering that they do to help the wider community. Since the introduction of the Community Support Fund nearly £40,000 has been donated to various charities.

 

This £300 donation has been able to provide well over 150 meals, which is enough to keep the 50 plus people who rely on the Tooting kitchen fed for more than three Sundays.

 

Set up in 1988 on Christmas day The Food Chain has steadily grown. With sites in every corner of the city as well as a delivery service, The Food Chain ensures that people get help when they need it the most.

 

 Laura Cox, Head of Media Relations at Tube Lines said:

“I wanted to do my bit for the community but wasn’t sure what to do. I enjoy cooking so when I heard about The Food Chain it seemed like an obvious choice. Working here has been great as my cooking skills have improved vastly and I really feel like I have made a difference.”

 

Louise Brooker- Carey, Director of Communications at Tube Lines, who chairs the Community Support Fund, said:

“At Tube Lines we like to encourage our employees to do what they can to help people less fortunate than themselves. The community support fund has enabled us to give back to the various communities in which many of our employees are active members of. Laura has dedicated her time and effort to The Food Chain and Tube Lines is happy to add to that in any way that we can.”

ENDS

For further information, please contact:
Press office, Tube Lines: 020 7088 4848 / 07843 551 589

Notes to Editors

1. Tube Lines is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of the infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines. London Underground is responsible for operating the Underground, for employing drivers and station staff, for ticketing and fares, and for the Tube’s safety regime.
2. The Tube Lines consortium consists of two shareholders – Amey and Bechtel. They bring together some of the most experienced providers of business services with specialist skills in the rail industry, including track and signal renewals, plus project and operational management. They are providing some of the best project and operational managers from around the world to work on the modernisation of the Tube system. Amey owns two-thirds of Tube Lines’ business and Bechtel one third.

3. For more information about The Food Chain please visit http://www.foodchain.org.uk.

 

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