Wetherspoon punters stunned after £6,000 worth of food raised for homeless

Wetherspoon customers were left stunned after an incredible £6,000 worth of food was raised for Liverpool's homeless community.

The event took place at The Richard John Blackler Wetherspoon pub in the city centre, which was understood to have seen around 400 homeless people fed with pizza and other food.

The movement, called 'Wetherspoons The Game' - arranges monthly events aimed at feeding homeless people using the pub's mobile phone app, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Punters visit Wetherspoon pubs across the country and share their table number on social media.

Founder of Wetherspoons the Game! Chris Illman (front),with volunteers waiting to deliver the food to the homeless (Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)

This then allows kind-hearted people to order food using the app to arrive at the group's table, from wherever they are in the UK.

And things got wild in Liverpool on Monday night.

Organiser Chris Illman said: "It was absolutely amazing, we couldn't cope with the amount of food being sent over to our table.

"The bleeper in the pub that goes off every time a food order arrives was annoying everyone in the pub because it was going off all the time."

In remarkable scenes, the game saw more than £6,000 of food ordered to the team's table in just two hours.

This was then collected and distributed to the around 400 of the most needy in the city by various organisations, hostels and charities - including the Cotton Street Project and Street Angels Liverpool.

Chris Illman,Founder of Wetherspoons the Game! at The Richard John Blackler Wetherspoon pub (Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)

Brian Phillips,from the Cotton Street Project,with hundreds of orders for food from the Wetherspoons the Game! (Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)

Chris added: "The staff were brilliant and they were prepared for us, but they were still very stressed because of the sheer volume of food being ordered to our table - it was just brilliant.

"At one point we crashed the screen in the pub that shows orders - it just couldn't cope.

"We were really grateful to all the charities, hostels and organisations that then helped us to deliver the food to the homeless in the city, everyone was buzzing."

Chris added: "We mainly asked people to order pizzas, they are the best thing as people can eat them hot and cold and they are really nice."

Chris, who is from Portsmouth, said he wasn't surprised at the generosity of Scousers, adding: "We knew we would have a good night in Liverpool - it was brilliant."

You can find more information about the Wetherspoons The Game events on the group's Facebook page.