Stadium joins national effort to support those impacted by COVID-19
Mon 30 March 2020, 14:30|Tottenham Hotspur
From today (Monday), our stadium is being used to support vulnerable individuals across our communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Club has been in discussions with Haringey Council, the Greater London Authority and our NHS and has offered the stadium and its facilities to them.
As a starting point, the stadium’s basement car park 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 is creating hubs to receive the surplus food, divide it into food parcels and deliver them to the doorsteps of vulnerable Londoners – our stadium will be 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.
Daniel Levy, Chairman, Tottenham Hotspur, said: “As a Club, we have always been clear about our commitment to the wider community – never has this been more important than it is now.
“We are immensely proud of the efforts of everybody involved in the fight against COVID-19 and see today as just the start of what we can do as a Club to assist.”
The Club had already been working with The Felix Project both before and at the start of the pandemic, donating surplus food and drink intended for use at our postponed fixture against Manchester United earlier this month.