Metallica have donated £40,000 to a homeless charity based near to the Download Festival site, where they have played two headline shows this weekend.The metal icons played the first of their two headline slots at the 2023 instalment of the heavy metal festival on Thursday night (June 8) , then going on to play a second and entirely different set on Saturday (June 10).Continuing their charitable donations while on their extensive two-year-long tour, the band have made a sizeable donation to Leicester-based charity Help The Homeless through their All Within My Hands Foundation.Help The Hopeless provides support for “workforce education, the fight against hunger, disaster relief and other critical local services.”Talking about the donation to the BBC, charity founder Arif Voraji said: “I started following their foundation on social media a couple of years ago and flagging our work but that was it.Voraji added: “We’ve seen a massive drop in donations from the public and donations from corporations, but at the same time, we’ve seen an increase in demand.
We’ve seen a 100% increase in demand for our food bank and our other food services and it’s not just individuals coming to us, it’s families too.“This money is a lifeline for really vulnerable people.
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