Leon Aarts:

the power of sharing a meal

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    LEON AARTS: chef, visionary humanitarian,

    philanthropist and inspirational, TEDx speaker,

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  • Leon Aarts has an innate ability to increase impact in areas of building a more equitable and sustainable food system.

     

    Through his leadership he has build several partnerships, public and media campaigns which amplify his message and easily attract funding support and volunteers.

    His specific expertise lies in the field of diverting surplus food at scale whilst at the same time increasing the number of meals distributed to people living in food insecurity. Leon is an expert at scaling his projects fast and sustainably.  

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  • “No one to bed hungry, there is always enough

    food to share.”  Leon Aarts

     

  • Leon's TEDx Maastricht - the power of sharing a meal

    WATCH Leon's TEDx Maastricht talk about the power of sharing a meal with insights from the Calais Refugee Camp.

  • Leon’s top achievements, besides being a proud dad of two, are:

    • Feeding Londoners during the pandemic and beyond - In September 2022, Leon was awarded the BBC Radio London’s Make a Difference Award - The Fundraiser category for leading a volunteer team to feed up to 5,000 Londoners every day in lockdown during the pandemic through the charity he founded, With Compassion. Under Leon’s leadership through With Compassion and The Felix Project's Felix’s Kitchen, 3 Million plus were cooked and redistributed from 2020 to 2023. Watch a video here.
    • Supporting refugees - Providing daily nourishment for up to 10,000 refugees in ‘the Jungle’ refugee camp in France through his charity, Calais Kitchens, and then becoming a TEDx speaker sharing his experience.
    • Entrepreneur - Becoming highly successful and accomplished in the hospitality space and food sector - owning a fine dining restaurant, being an executive chef at celebrity owned restaurant Le Garage, the equivalent of the British, ‘The Ivy’, and launching a fine food business, TFC Express, worth £3.5M which grew to be #1 in the niche market.

  • Leon on National Television

     

    WATCH Leon in action with Miriam Margoyles OBE, writer, actress, political activist and television personality on Miriam's Dickensian Christmas (screened on Channel 4, December 2022) as he creates a Christmas dinner from surplus food. (Credit: Channel 4)

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