Kindness · Cardiff, Wales
Metallica's charity gives £20,000 to Cardiff Foodbank after empty-shelves appeal
What good news happened in Cardiff, Wales?
Metallica's charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, donated £20,000 to Cardiff Foodbank after the band's sold-out Principality Stadium show on 28 June 2026, days after the charity publicly appealed for help with empty warehouse shelves. Cardiff Foodbank's chief executive called it the largest celebrity donation the charity has ever received, and the BBC estimated the gift would fund roughly 9,000 meals.
What is the background?
Cardiff Foodbank, part of the Trussell network, supports around 20,000 people a year across the Welsh capital through eight distribution centres and a mobile delivery service. In the days before Metallica’s Cardiff show, the charity had appealed for donations on social media, saying it was “very worried” and had never seen its warehouse “so empty.”
What happened?
Metallica played a sold-out show at Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Sunday 28 June 2026, part of the band’s M72 World Tour — the same venue where Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour stop prompted a donation to the same foodbank in 2024. Shortly afterwards, the band’s charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, emailed Cardiff Foodbank offering a £20,000 donation. Chief executive Rachel Biggs said staff’s first reaction was caution: “We had an email saying ‘This isn’t a scam, please get in touch with the foundation.’” Once confirmed, Biggs called it “an incredible amount of money which will make such a difference and replenish our empty shelves.” The foodbank said it is the largest celebrity donation it has ever received, and the BBC estimated the gift would fund roughly 9,000 meals.
How did it happen?
All Within My Hands, the foundation Metallica co-founded in 2017, routinely donates to a local food bank at tour stops as part of its ongoing hunger-relief work. The donation lets Cardiff Foodbank put in a bulk order to restock its central warehouse rather than rely solely on unpredictable day-to-day public food drives.
Why does it matter?
The gift arrived as Trussell food banks across Wales distributed 154,040 emergency food parcels in 2025, part of more than 2.6 million distributed UK-wide that year, according to Trussell’s own end-of-year statistics. A single donation of this scale lets a foodbank buy in bulk with certainty over what it can put in emergency parcels, rather than depend entirely on the ebb and flow of public donations — and Biggs said the publicity around a gift like this tends to lift ordinary giving for months afterward.
What were the key results?
- £20,000 donated by Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation to Cardiff Foodbank
- Donation follows the band’s sold-out Principality Stadium show on 28 June 2026
- BBC estimated the gift would fund roughly 9,000 meals
- Cardiff Foodbank’s largest celebrity donation on record, per chief executive Rachel Biggs
- Cardiff Foodbank supports around 20,000 people a year across eight centres and a mobile service
- Trussell food banks in Wales distributed 154,040 emergency food parcels in 2025
What happens next?
Cardiff Foodbank said it plans to use the funds on a bulk order to rebuild warehouse stock. Biggs said she expects the added public profile from Metallica’s gift to help sustain donations and awareness of the foodbank’s work through the rest of the year. Cardiff Foodbank continues to appeal for regular public food and cash donations to sustain supplies once the one-off gift is used.
Sources & reporting notes
- NME
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