Souper united effort wins King David the challenge

King David Linksfield won the Souper Bowl 2025 challenge on Friday, 30 May, beating six other schools to make up 20 167 soup packs.

The challenge, which took part in May, involved schools across Johannesburg replacing books with rice, and lessons with volunteering, scooping, pouring, and packing soup for distribution to various charities. King David Linksfield; King David Victory Park; King David Sandton; Redhill; Assumption Convent; Reddam Bedfordview; and St Andrew’s School for Girls participated in this year’s challenge.

The Souper Bowl was started by 24/25 outreach student leaders at King David High School Linksfield. This year, King David Victory Park made 999 soup packs in the 45-minute time period, and then nominated another school to beat its record. Each school attempted to break the previous school’s record. At the end of the challenge, all the schools came together to distribute the soup packs.

On 30 May, King David Linksfield high and primary schools united to set a new record. They raced against the clock, packed as fast as they could, ultimately crowning King David Linksfield the winner of the challenge. By the end of the challenge, all seven schools made a combined total of 32 717 soup packs, feeding more than 130 000 people this winter. The soup packs were later distributed to 12 different charities through the Nashua Children’s Charity Foundation. These charities include soup kitchens, early childhood development centres, and feeding schemes across Gauteng and Limpopo.