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Hospitality Action not only helps people in crisis but they also care about the future generations of hospitality professionals. Hospitality Action has been supporting us for the past four years with seminars about drug addiction and alcohol abuse in Hospitality! This year I am breaking decorum with the Movember appeal and giving any money raised to a charity that really looks after hospitality people in need! Two of my hospitality students Iason and Faris have also pledged to sacrifice their current facial hair and attempt to show their support by growing an awesome mustache over the four weeks of Movember!
More about Hospitality Action
Hospitality Action is the trade charity offering a crucial lifeline to people of all ages, working and retired, from the hospitality industry. Whether they are approached by a chef, housekeeper, school
cook or bar staff, Hospitality Action will endeavor to
support, whatever the difficulty.
The charity’s beneficiaries come from all walks of life and from all areas of the hospitality industry across the UK. They face serious difficulties on a daily basis:
from life
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changing illness and poverty to bereavement and homelessness.
Sometimes all it takes is a very small change in circumstances to tip the balance and turn a manageable situation into an unmanageable one. With the help of the industry, Hospitality Action want to make sure that when that happens, they are always there to lend support.
In addition to their established grants programme Hospitality Action also offer help to students via their Alcohol and Drug Awareness seminars and run an extremely popular befriending scheme for industry retirees and days out for families in need.
The charity also provides expert advice, support and assistance through their rapidly growing Employee Assistance Programme.
Last Year:
£668,621 was spent supporting 2,037people in need
84% of those helped were below the age of 60
100,000 employees from 135
companies were able to access expert help,
support and assistance 24/7 365 days a year via our Employee Assistance Programme
7,288students were reached at 177
college sessions via their Alcohol and Drug Awareness seminars
1,285 Golden Friends benefited from the charity’s contact