Hedgehogs dine out after recruiter wins TV reality show

A generous recruitment consultant, who emerged victorious on Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me this week, has donated his £1k winnings to Hedgehog Emergency Rescue Yorkshire.

Earlier this week, Peter Benefer (above), an executive manager at Eden Brown Built Environment, beat tax accountant and now friend Isca Watson, photographer Elaine Borges-Ibanez and social work manager Lakhan Singh on the show that sees strangers attend each other’s houses for dinner parties over the course of a week in the hope of winning a £1k cash prize.

Here’s Benefer’s winning menu:

  • Starter: crispy poached egg on creamed spiced lentils with crispy pancetta
  • Main course: creamy chicken and chorizo pie – complete with a pastry-shaped bee (he also keeps bees) – and cumin-spiced sweet potato mash
  • Dessert: White chocolate, vanilla and honey (can you spot the theme yet?) panna cotta with a raspberry coulis

Benefer told Recruiter the competitive streak, tenacity and commitment needed to excel in recruitment certainly helped him land the top prize, but the pressure of winning for non-profit organisation Hedgehog Emergency Rescue Bingley Yorkshire played a part with his nerves.

“I’d already committed to give the money to Hedgehog Emergency Rescue Bingley Yorkshire and I thought that would take the pressure off me. However, it made the pressure worse as I thought so many hedgehog lives would be at stake!”

You can add to Benefer’s generous donation to Hedgehog Emergency Rescue Bingley Yorkshire (HERBY) by clicking on the link here.

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