meals

Some spend months underground - there is even a small economy of people selling food, cigarettes and cooked meals to the miners.

That meant finding ways to deliver 6 million meals, 2 million gallons of fuel and a million cases of bottled water to hundreds of bases and outposts — some reachable only by airdrop — each month.

Since being launched, on the King's birthday last year, the food project has saved the equivalent of 2.2 million meals.

So far, the Coronation Food Project has rescued 940 tonnes of surplus food, estimated as enough to make 2,240,000 meals.

The Long Table, one of them, has served more than 38,000 meals to people through its pay-as-you-can model since 2021.