Gruppo Montenegro supports “Un piatto per tutti”, a food bank project for the Metropolitan City of Bologna

Un Piatto per Tutti is a food bank established through the community social Fund DARE PER FARE, a metropolitan welfare project inaugurated in December 2020 by the Local Social and Health Conference in the Metropolitan City of Bologna. The purpose is to provide a timely and prompt response to the needs of the most vulnerable groups.

Un piatto per tutti has three main goals:

• Counteracting food shortage
• Limiting food waste
• Harnessing the ability to respond by persons or organisations (Caritas, charity shops, associations, …) that distribute staple goods and groceries, thus helping the creation of a city-wide network

Support to this project by Gruppo Montenegro – between June 2024 and April 2025 – entails four donations of Food products to the 76 collection points selected for the project throughout the seven districts of the Metropolitan City of Bologna, all of them engaged in counteracting food shortage.

In June this year the first 18,000 boxes of products branded Bonomelli, Cannamela, Cuore, Polenta Valsugana and Thè Infrè were delivered.

This gives a new lease on life to items no longer sellable through retail channels, although they are perfectly fit for purpose (e.g. those approaching their sell-by date, that have changed label, etc.).

By joining this project Gruppo Montenegro has become a socially engaged company in the Greater Bologna area.

Thanks to the support received so far, every month the Un Piatto per Tutti network is able to provide food for an average of 850 households, approximately 2,000 adults and 1,050 children in total.

In the year 2023 every month 2,845 households benefited from our donations, more specifically the 9,487 people, approximately 5,661 adults and 3,826 children.