The Food Chain get first alternative wedding list gift

The Food Chain has benefited from its first gift from the London alternative wedding list. Paul Symes and Terry Stacy who got hitched last month chose The Food Chain as one of the charities for their gifts to donate to.

Terry, who many may remember from the year we were the Islington Mayoral charity is Deputy Leader of Islington council, explained:

"We have been together for seven years and already have everything in our home that we need.

"We weren't going to have a wedding list at all but when we realised that our guests would still want to mark the occasion with a gift we decided to sign-up to a charitable gift list, and being able to have one that was closer to home was even more special."

Terry's partner Paul Symes, head of visual presentation at department store Fortnum and Mason in London, added:

"Knowing that a donation of just £30 could provide a week's groceries for a Londoner housebound with an HIV-related illness or that £50 could provide a safe warm bed for a homeless Londoner certainly puts a new toaster or kettle into perspective."

The London Wedding List is operated by Give It, the not-for-profit organisation that previously launched The Alternative Wedding List, the first multi-charity wedding list service.

Andy Hickey, who heads the operation said:

"London has always been a 'hot spot' for our UK-wide service and since we launched our London version earlier in the year we've had lots of interest and have already generated thousands of pounds for the charities - we've had a better start than when we launched the original version three years ago."

Couples sign-up to one of a number of ready-made gift lists that contain donations to various charities that work across the capital, including The Food Chain, St. Mungo's, Shooting Star Children's Hospice, London Wildlife Trust and many more.

For more information visit The London Wedding List here