Sea Containers London is an official partner with the Breathe Arts Health Research. A local charity, Breathe Arts Health Research (Breathe) are world leaders in combining creativity and robust scientific research to improve health and wellbeing. Their vision is to transform healthcare, embedding evidence-based arts and health into the mainstream. We are proud to work with the charity in several ways, helping them to reach more people with their creative healthcare programmes, which includes delivering wellbeing support to our team through Musical Pop-Ups and Breathe Sessions.
A key programme we support and host is The Breathe Magic Intensive Therapy Programme, a summer camp created to help young people with hemiplegia – a weakness or paralysis affecting one side of the body as a result of brain injury or stroke – through the art of magic.
The programme delivers specially designed Breathe Magic tricks to develop hand and arm function, cognitive abilities, self-confidence, and independence. This award-winning approach, backed by extensive research, gives young people access to 78 hours of intensive therapy and transforms them into young magicians. Specialist occupational therapists work alongside Magic Circle magicians to provide 1-to-1 therapy in a group setting, delivering interventions tailored to suit each young person’s particular needs.
On World Water Day, 2024 we proudly launched our partnership with Made Blue Foundation, a charity on a mission to provide everyone with access to clean drinking water.
Our partnership funds 100 litres of clean, fresh water for every room night sold at Sea Containers London, and across Lore Group hotels. This means your stay will give one full day of clean water for a household in an area of water scarcity.
Guests are given this ‘gift’ to pay forward – they can decide (via a QR code in-room) which project the total amount made possible by their stay will support.
1.5 million adults in London struggle to afford to eat every day, 400,000 children are at risk of missing the next meal. Meanwhile, our food industry generates 3 million tonnes of good, edible surplus food each year.
The Felix Project is a London-based food redistribution charity set up in 2016 to tackle both issues.
The organisation rescues good, surplus food from the food industry that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste. This is high-quality and nutritious, including a high proportion of fresh fruit and vegetables, baked goods, salads, meat, and fish. They collect or receive food from over 539 suppliers, including supermarkets, wholesalers, farms, restaurants, and delis. This is then sorted and delivered to almost 1000 front-line charities, primary schools, and holiday programmes in London. That way, food that would have gone to waste is reaching vulnerable people, homeless, people with mental health challenges or those who simply cannot afford to buy regular, healthy food
Sea Containers London has been a partner of The Felix Project since 2017 and contributes both through ready-made meals and team volunteering. In November 2023 we were proud to host a Thanksgiving Lunch in the restaurant with proceeds going to The Felix Project.
With world-leading hospitals local to Sea Containers London, we offer support to NHS staff on an ongoing basis through discounts and other initiatives. During the 2020 pandemic, we launched an initiative to give away 365 overnight stays at Sea Containers London, via nomination form Fan Mail. We were overwhelmed by the response and touched by the heroic stories shared with us, so we released a further 180 room nights to our heroes. We also lit our building in the shape and colours of a rainbow to show our support.
Since April 2020 we have activated the following campaigns to support our valued NHS workers.
Volume 1: 365 stays including breakfast plus 180 due to popularity Volume 2: 16 weeks and Fan Mail each week. Winner drawn and received a voucher in our outlets Volume 3: 100 Hampers of Hedgerow by agua Spa Gifts Volume 4: 4 Weekly Secret Cinema viewings for NHS workers Volume 5: Social Media nominations and 100 treatments given in February and March 2022 Volume 6: Comedy Night for NHS offered through Breathe Arts Health Research in 12th Knot, June 2022
