Metallica donates £20,000 to Cardiff food bank before stadium gig
Metallica gave Cardiff Foodbank £20,000 before its Principality Stadium show, enough for 9,000 meals, as the charity warned of empty shelves.
Metallica gave Cardiff Foodbank £20,000 ahead of its sold-out show at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, a donation the charity said will fund 9,000 meals. The gift arrived as the food bank said its shelves were running low and food donations had been falling.
The money came through Metallica’s charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, before the band played Cardiff on Sunday, 28 June 2026. Rachel Biggs, chief executive of Cardiff Foodbank, said the charity first took the approach as a surprise: "This isn't a scam, please get in touch with the foundation". The foundation has said Metallica has supported local food banks while touring for years, and now donates a portion of ticket sales at every stop to a local food bank through its partnership with Feeding America.
Cardiff Foodbank said it provides three days of nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to people in Cardiff who are referred in crisis. Its website says it helped more than 20,000 people across Cardiff last year with emergency food and essentials, underscoring the scale of demand in a city that can host packed stadium nights while still relying on charitable food aid.
The donation also landed against a wider national backdrop of strain. Trussell said more than 2.6 million emergency food parcels were distributed across the United Kingdom in 2025, and it has warned that declining public food donations are creating operational challenges for food banks. That pressure has made cash gifts especially valuable because they can be converted quickly into meals when donated stock is thin.
Metallica also linked the Cardiff concert to a separate community effort with the Welsh Blood Service. Special donation sessions ran for a week either side of the show in what was described as the first UK collaboration of its kind between a global rock band and a blood service. The pairing turned a stadium stop into a broader civic event, but it also highlighted a sharper contrast: the same city drawing thousands for live music still depends on food bank shelves being filled one donation at a time.
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