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1st October 2024

Heartwood Collection Partners With Magic Breakfast as its Charity of the Year

Heartwood Collection is proud to partner up with Magic Breakfast, a leading children’s charity in the UK that exists to make sure no child or young person is too hungry to learn, as its charity of the year.

Over the next 12 months teams across Heartwood Inns and Brasserie Blanc will be hosting a range of fundraising activities to contribute the equivalent of 100,000 nutritious breakfasts.

Magic Breakfast’s mission is to end morning hunger as a barrier to learning for children and young people in the UK. Making a difference to over 200,000 children and young people every day by offering breakfasts and expert advice to tackle morning hunger in schools across England and Scotland.

Heartwood Collection will kick-start its efforts with a bumper charity “quizathon”, hosting a charity quiz night, in partnership with Lucky Cow Quizzes, in every Heartwood Inn and Brasserie Blanc from October 28th to 19th November.

Tickets cost £40 per person and guests can enjoy a deliciously seasonal 3 course meal, live entertainment on the night and of course the chance to join fellow quizzers to win one of a selection of ultimate prizes on the night. Heartwood Collection will donate £5 from every meal sold to Magic Breakfast* and tickets can be purchased here xxx

There will be a multitude of other events that will be promoted on the company’s social media, website and emails, including sponsored walks, cycles and even a sponsored car wash.

Richard Ferrier, CEO of Heartwood Collection said:

“We are delighted to be working with Magic Breakfast as Heartwood Collection’s chosen charity and supporting the important work they do in schools across the country. The quizzes are the first activity of what promises to be a full year of fundraising efforts and we are sure our guests will be really supportive in helping us achieve our goals.”

Ali Roberts, Head of Corporate Partnerships at Magic Breakfast said:

“Magic Breakfast is delighted to be working with Heartwood Collection. Thanks to the incredible fundraising efforts of you and your guests, we aim to provide 100,000 breakfasts for children and young people at risk of going hungry. A nutritious breakfast helps ensure that no child is too hungry to learn, enabling children and young people to reach their potential. Thank you to Heartwood Collection, your support is highly valued.”

More about the partnership can be found here: https://heartwoodcollection.com/charity/

For more information, please contact: Emma Martin at Heartwood Collection on emma.@heartwoodcollection.com

*Heartwood Collection will pay £4.50 as a donation to Magic Breakfast and 50p will be paid as a fee to Magic Outcomes Ltd. Magic Outcomes Ltd donates its taxable profits to Magic

Breakfast.

Notes to editors

Heartwood Collection is the Group that operates 26 Heartwood Inns pubs and 14 Brasserie Blanc restaurants across the UK. Heartwood Collection’s current site portfolio is as follows:

Inns

The Barley Mow – Englefield Green, Surrey

The Black Horse – Thame, Oxfordshire

The Black Horse – Reigate, Surrey

The Black Swan – Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire

The Boot – Histon, Cambridgeshire

The Britannia – Parkstone, Dorset

The British Queen – Locksbottom, Kent

The Cricketers – Cobham, Surrey

The Hare – Old Redding, Harrow Weald, Middlesex

The Highwayman – Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

The Jobber’s Rest – Upminster, Essex

The Jolly Farmer – Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

The King’s Arms – Prestbury, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

The King’s Head – Teddington, Middlesex

The March Hare – Guildford, Surrey

The Oaks – Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset

The Plough & Harrow – Long Ditton, Surrey

The Queen’s Head – Weybridge, Surrey

The Quill & Scholar – Lichfield, Staffordshire

The Red Deer – Horsham, West Sussex

The Rising Sun – Reading, Berkshire

The Ropemaker – Emsworth, Hampshire

The Sun Inn – Chobham, Surrey

The White Bear – Ruislip, Middlesex

The White Hart – Lewes, East Sussex

The White Horse – Dorking, Surrey

Upcoming openings

The Coat & Bear – Newbury, Berkshire. Opening October 2024

The Royal Forest – Epping Forest, Essex. Opening November 2024

The Prince of Wales – East Barnet, London. Opening Winter 2024

The Old Crown – Great Bookham, Surrey. Opening Winter 2024

The White Hart – Lymington, Hampshire. Opening Winter 2024 The Ragged Robin – Godalming, Surrey. Opening Spring 2025

Brasserie Blanc Restaurants

London – Chancery Lane

London – Fulham Reach

London – Southbank

London – Threadneedle Street

Beaconsfield

Bournemouth

Cheltenham

Chichester

Hale Barns

Leeds

Milton Keynes

Oxford

Portsmouth

Winchester

Heartwood Collection is backed by Alchemy Partners. Heartwood recently announced the news that Heartwood Collection recently secured an additional £100m of funding from its owner Alchemy Partners and its banking partner OakNorth to support the Group’s continued growth in freehold pubs and freehold pubs-with-rooms. Heartwood Inns has been awarded the Best Managed Pub Group and Best Operations Team Awards at the Publican Awards 2024 alongside the R200 Best Food-Led Pub Group Awards 2023. As part of Heartwood Collection, Heartwood Inns has been recognised as a Sunday Times Best Places to Work. Heartwood Inns has been shortlisted for the 2024 R200 Best Food-Led Pub Group Awards and Best Pub Business in the Peach Hero & Icon Awards.


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