We are committed to making a positive impact beyond the food we serve. By partnering with social enterprises and supporting community initiatives, we aim to create lasting social value.
Each Lexington team member receives two paid volunteering days per year to contribute to good causes. Through our Lifetime of Enrichment campaign, we are on track to deliver 28,835 days – the average lifetime – of social value by 2025 through volunteering, apprenticeships, fundraising, and partnerships.
In a first for the industry, we have launched a new allergy aware menu across our business, offering more accessible mealtime options. We designed this menu in partnership with the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation (NARF) in response to growing demand from customers for greater awareness about the risks of food allergies.
In 2025, our a three-year charity partnership with The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation commenced where, alongside Elior UK, we are committed to raising £100,000 by the end of 2027.
We are partnered with Fat Macy’s, a social enterprise helping Londoners in temporary accommodation gain employment and secure housing. In 2023, we launched our first café in collaboration with Fat Macy’s, with profits funding housing deposit schemes. In 2025, we welcomed our first full-time hire from the programme, Prince, who has progressed to commis chef in one of our London locations.
We are proud to work with the City of Westminster to support their Supported Internship programme, offering training and development opportunities for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Through structured work rotations and guidance from skilled job coaches, participants gain valuable experience. We have facilitated three work placements so far, alongside several mock interview sessions with our HR team, supporting 11 interns in developing their skills and confidence in interviews.
Based at St Cuthbert’s Centre in London, Refettorio Felix is a community kitchen providing meals to vulnerable individuals using surplus food that would otherwise go to waste. Our team has volunteered with the charity for over 10 years, and in 2024, we helped cook and serve more than 8,000 meals. Our Green Force teams have also made a valuable contribution by donating surplus food and produce from our site to Refettorio Felix, an organisation that depends entirely on surplus food donations.
Through our partnership with the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, our chefs lead interactive sessions teaching children about food – from its origins to preparation and impact on health and the environment. Several members of our team contribute to the programme each year including the Prept programme. Prept sessions help set young people up with positive attitudes around food and cooking, so they can take these learning home and share them with family and friends.
We are partnered with Pact Coffee, one of the UK’s leading independent specialty coffee roasters. Our exclusive collaboration focuses primarily on coffee grown by Cafeina, a collective of 1,868 women in Brazil formed in 2019 to empower, motivate and inspire women farmers in an industry which is traditionally male-dominated in Brazil. Once the Cafeina coffee is imported, Pact will roast it in its carbon-neutral roastery in Surrey and deliver it to Lexington offices days later.
With each cup of Cafeina coffee sold through our business, we contribute to their cause, enabling them to recruit more members, conduct regular training sessions, and share valuable tips to enhance their coffee expertise.
