Th England forward set an initial target of £100,000 after making a sizeable donation himself, only for the nation’s leading supermarkets to become involved and help the total number of children being delivered food soar ~~~


Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has revealed the FareShare charity he has teamed up with has raised more than £20m to feed vulnerable children.

Rashford initially threw his support behind the scheme that provides food to children who depend on school dinners while they are at home in lockdown, with the England forward making his own sizeable donation by March.


His generous donation saw a £100,000 target identified to help those at risk of going hungry, but the interest in the FareShare project soared as a number of supermarkets got involved.

Tesco donated £15m worth of food to the scheme, while Asda gave £2.5m and the Co-op donated £1.5m. Both Pret A Manger and Pizza Express have also contributed, and Rashford has revealed how the total number keeps escalating the longer that lockdown goes on to exceed what they dreamt was possible.

“It's done a lot better than what we thought and what it actually started off with,” Rashford told the Manchester United Podcast. “It was a slow process at first and we just set it at trying to get to £100,000 and a couple of days passed and we were way past that and then a week passed and the numbers just kept getting higher and higher.


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“It got to a stage where we actually had a lot of donations, more than we expected, and we were struggling to actually deliver the food to people, so that's where the bigger companies like Tesco, Co-op, Asda, they've come in and helped us massively with deliveries on that side of things and also put in their own large donations as well.