Providing the essential tool for the UK Independent Food Banks
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Make A Real Change to Food Poverty
Please support my worthy cause. Help me to donate much more of my time. With more time I can provide many more resources to help people struggling with poverty. I am just a team of one that has so many ideas and visions for the help this site can provide.
Until food and heat poverty ends in the UK my aim is to help those in need. I hope to grow the site and achieve the funding it needs.
As a person that has struggled with poverty for at least a decade, I understand and care about the suffering of the poorest in the UK.
It will still be many years before UK food and heat poverty doesn’t exist. Help me to find the time and money, because I still want to be there at the end.
Together we can all make a huge difference.
Independent Food Banks Listed.
Warm Spaces Listed.
Other Resources Listed.
Getting worse before it gets better!
In August 2024 our new Labour government tells us that tough times are ahead. Well people are suffering already.
Food Bank numbers rising
In these austere times, it is incredible that Food Banks are the Highest Growth Enterprise across the UK, opening at a rate of over 5 per week.
Here at Food Poverty UK, you will find the information you need to enable you to start a food bank, to find your nearest food bank and how to get help from a food bank.
Poverty is far too high
Food poverty can be defined as the inability to obtain healthy affordable food. It is estimated that some four million people in the UK are affected by food poverty (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2000). Food poverty varies between communities and individuals, affects certain groups more than others, particularly older people and people on low incomes and can vary over time.
Demand will increase in 2024!!!
Over 130,000 people were given donated food at just one small charity alone. That number could rise to 250,00 in 2024. Many other charities, churches and community groups have weekly food banks but the awareness of those is not good enough. The government also keep no records of how many vouchers are given out to people in need. The government says that benefits are set at a level that enables people to eat in line with the living wage.
How You Can Help
DONATE FOOD
There are many ways to gift food to a food bank.
You can donate in most supermarkets, find a food bank in our directory.
CONTACTING ME
Tell me about organisations that I might not know about or that have helped you.
Use the blog to highlight the problems and spread the word.
FUND THIS SITE
Listing all the foodbanks and other useful resources could take me years. As I have to work myself the hours I can spend on the site are limited.
More funding = More time I can donate to this cause.
VOLUNTEER
Donating your time can be very rewarding.
Read our volunteer page for more details or check out volunteers section of our block for organisation in desperate need.
My Mission
I would really love to be able to spend less time on work that I don’t enjoy and more time to help others through this website.
The Work I need to do
The biggest project I have started is creating a directory of all the independent food banks that not many know about. Food banks are not just run by The Trussell Trust.
Why it’s so important
The cost of living crisis will get worse before it gets better. The winter is going to be tough with many losing the winter fuel allowance. This site aims to connect those in need to essential services.
How this website will help!!!
With more of my time becoming available through funding the site can provide visitors with a comprehensive directory of where to get help. It’s all work in progress, would be great to see it live for the winter.
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