We love it when two of our partners get together to help the local community – and we have a fantastic example with BRITE Box and Herb Fresh.

BRITE Box is a weekly recipe kit provided to local families via schools, offering fresh ingredients and cooking instructions to help cook delicious budget friendly meals. BRITE Box helps with the weekly food budget but also encourages children to enjoy getting involved in the kitchen, whilst providing opportunities to try a range of foods, flavours and recipes and build resilience for the future.

Walton Charity has supported BRITE Box by providing a community grant of £65,000 over three years, which will enable the project to provide weekly meal kits to 180 local families. Herb Fresh is based on land owned by Walton Charity in Hersham and provides fresh herbs to supermarkets across the country. They are a long-standing tenant whose aim is to not only grow herbs, but to do so in an environmentally friendly way which benefits the land and local community.

Herb Fresh provided the mint for BRITE Box’s Moroccan meatball recipe, supplying over 100 boxes to 10 schools in the area. The boxes smelt amazing!

We’re sure this addition of fresh and local ingredients will be much appreciated and there are plans for the two to work together again in the coming months.

Walton Charity has a long history of tackling poverty in Elmbridge and our more recent initiatives include the Walton & Hersham Foodbank and The Bridge.