L'Anima, Hibiscus and Quo Vadis are among the restaurants who have signed up to a campaign to help raise money for the homeless in the run up to Christmas. 

During November and December, restaurants in 19 cities across Britain will be supporting StreetSmart's £1-per-table restaurant campaign. 

Restaurants taking part will add a voluntary £1 to every table's bill that will be donated directly to the charity which gives emergency food, shelter, advice, education and training to the homeless. 

Last year the campaign, supported by chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, Antony Worrall Thompson, Fergus Henderson, Giorgio Locatelli and Rowley Leigh and diners at their restaurants, as well as those at Oxo Tower, Nobu, E&O, Butler’s Wharf Chop House, The Living Room, Smiths of Smithfield and Wild Honey, raised £455k. 

This year, chefs Marcus Wareing and Helene Darroze and restaurants The Botanist, Tom Ilic, Dehesa, L'Anima, Hibiscus and Quo Vadis have also joined the campaign for the first time. 

“StreetSmart has become part of Christmas for us. It is everyone’s chance to do the right thing at the right time, with only the gentlest nudge,” said Gordon Ramsay.

The cities taking part this year are: Bath, Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Cornwall, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southend-on-Sea.

To see the list of participating restaurants and the homeless projects funded as well as information on how to take part visit www.streetsmart.org.uk

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