Taylor Swift works to leave the cities on the Eras tour route a little better than he found them.
As the 34-year-old pop star took her world tour to Europe this summer, she continued her trend of donating to food banks along the way. And according to a charity in Liverpool – where Swift played three nights at Anfield Stadium earlier this month – a recent donation from the singer will take care of critical gaps in his fundraising efforts by providing meals for an entire year.
“It's the most incredible gift,” said Rich Jones, chief executive of the St Andrews Community Network. The guardian in an interview published on Tuesday (June 25). “Due to rising prices, increasing need and declining donations, we have to subsidize food ourselves for a long time.”
“But it's fair to say that Taylor Swift has basically paid our food bill for 12 months – and that gives us room to focus on our fundraising efforts going forward,” he added on behalf of St. Andrew's, which operates 11 food banks and provides long-term support to eight community pantries.
Shortly after the Liverpool show, the 'Anti-Hero' singer brought her Eras showcase to Wales. According to Rachel Biggs, chief executive of Cardiff Foodbank, Swift also covered 10,800 meals with a discreet donation to the organization in honor of her one-off performance at the Principality Stadium on June 18.
“We are going to buy an articulated lorry full of food and other essential items to supplement the emergency food parcels,” Biggs told the publication. “This will provide the weight equivalent of feeding 1,200 people three meals a day, for three days… That will be 2.5 weeks of what we normally distribute.”
While Swift doesn't make her donations public, Liverpool and Cardiff are just two of the latest cities to report receiving generous donations from the 14-time Grammy winner during her Eras tour. When he was on the North American leg, food banks in Arizona, Nevada and Florida revealed he had sent funding their way.
Following three nights at London's Wembley Stadium last weekend, Swift is scheduled to perform three shows in Dublin June 28-30. He'll spend the rest of the summer traveling across Europe before returning to North America for one final run this fall.
“The first round at Wembley was so surreal,” she wrote in a recent Instagram post. “I look out into crowds of 90,000 fans every night and hear that VOLUME… Those were some of the loudest crowds I've ever heard… I'm never going to forget those shows.”
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