Jose to make food deliveries for local community

Jose Mourinho has announced he will be volunteering his time to assist the fight against COVID-19 within our local community.

The Head Coach will help out alongside our Grounds staff at the Training Centre to harvest fresh produce from our Kitchen Garden and deliver it to the food distribution hub in operation at our stadium.

From here, the produce is delivered to those identified by Haringey Council as most in-need within our local community during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Deliveries will be made weekly and include organic fruit, vegetables and herbs that usually serve the First Team restaurant at our Training Centre throughout the football season.

Tended to by our full-time gardening staff all year round, the Kitchen Garden gives us the ability to grow strains of herbs that complement the specific dietary requirements of individual players to maximise performance and recovery.

Last month, it was announced that the stadium’s ‘pitch pocket’ is being used as a storage base by the London Food Alliance – a new scheme set up to ensure food supplies for the most vulnerable people within the capital during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It has been set up by the capital’s three largest food surplus distributors — The Felix Project, FareShare and City Harvest — to pick up nutritious surplus food from suppliers and deliver it in bulk to community hubs in each London borough.

Each Borough Council has created hubs to receive the surplus food, divide it into food parcels and deliver them to the doorsteps of vulnerable Londoners – our stadium is one of two hubs used by Haringey, alongside Alexandra Palace.

Boroughs are in touch with local charities, foodbanks and community centres, as well as the Government, to ascertain who is most vulnerable and in need.