The Nando’s Mansfield restaurant has become part of the company’s new food donation and employment programme called Fuel Your Future.

It is seeing Nando’s restaurants across London, Birmingham, the North East and East Midlands serve up free meals once a week to vulnerable young people and their families.

The programme aims to help with both the immediate need for free meals, and most importantly a long-term impact on the lives of disadvantaged young people, through supporting their futures with employment opportunities.

With the number of free meals served doubling week on week since the scheme began in June, and with more Nando’s locations participating in the coming weeks, Nando’s is aiming to donate over 15,000 free meals to disadvantaged young people across the UK by the end of the trial period.

Over the last three years, Nando’s has worked closely with several external partners including the charity Family Action and their HeadStart programme, supporting more than 200 young people into employment. In addition, in 2020 alone, aside to job placements, these partnerships have had a positive impact on 1,291 young people’s lives through employability workshops, training, support and career discovery days.

Over the last three years young people from HeadStart in partnership with Nando’s have also volunteered nearly 40k hours in local communities as part of the scheme.

Since lockdown began Nando’s has also donated over 150,000 meals to local charities, the NHS and FareShare in partnership with Deliveroo.

The Fuel Your Future food donation scheme is aimed at vulnerable young people and their families in the UK who are going to be feeling the long-term impacts of the pandemic.