Pret supports numerous charities helping the homeless and the underprivileged in Hong Kong (including Salvation Army, Ark Association etc.) by offering our unsold sandwiches to them at the end of each day.

We display donation boxes in all our shops to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and help to raise public awareness of their organisation. Each Christmas, we have a Charity Campaign with Make-A-Wish Foundation. For every Christmas Sandwich sold, Pret A Manger will donate HK$1 to them. We also donate products to their "Share the joy of a wish" campaign for their fundraising event.

It is estimated that over 10,000 people in Hong Kong are lacking in basic food supplies. Meanwhile, quality food is being discarded and is taking up considerable space in the city’s three landfills.

We are pleased to be working with Hong Kong environmental charity, Feeding Hong Kong, to ensure that at the end of each day as much of our fresh, natural food as possible is redirected to where it is needed most, rather than in the bin.

Feeding Hong Kong provides an important link between companies with surplus food and various food banks and shelters across Hong Kong - helping both low-income families and the environment in the process.

We prefer to work on long-term arrangements with charity organisations to ensure that as much food gets to the homeless as possible. Tragically a few of our shops have no regular charities able to collect from them.If you are a Hong Kong registered charity and interested in collecting unsold sandwiches on a long term basis, please contact Gabrielle Kirstein at Feeding Hong Kong on Tel: 2205 6568.

Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham (the founders of Pret A Manger) set up The Pret Foundation Trust in the UK in 1995. The Trust is funded by money that we donate from the sales of some of our products, and customer donations through collection boxes in shops. This primarily supports the Pret Charity Run, a fleet of electric vans, which collect and distribute our leftover food at the end of every day to charities for the homeless across London. In total, we donate nearly 2 million meals to charities for the homeless across the UK every year.