Our vision is a UK where no one goes hungry.
We want to demonstrate how hunger and its underlying causes can be addressed, and use this knowledge and evidence to advocate for systemic change to eliminate hunger in the UK.
About Us
Our vision is a UK where no one goes hungry. We want to demonstrate how hunger and its underlying causes can be addressed, and use this knowledge and evidence to advocate for systemic change which eliminates hunger in the UK.
Thanks to your generous support, the Feeding Britain network has, in partnership with likeminded organisations:
- Continued our Healthy Holidays programme which provides nutritious meals and enriching activities for more than 40,000 children and their families during school holidays, and which led to the Government introducing a national Holiday Activities and Food programme with more than £220 million of funding.
- Distributed 2.2 million meals to vulnerable people and families on low incomes under our Covid-19 Emergency Response programme.
- Established, maintained, and supported 62 settings in our Affordable Food Networks, including our flagship Citizens’ Supermarkets, which provide nutritious food and wraparound help on a regular basis for 10,000 households.
- Created an employability programme for 45 young people in search of work.
- Provided specialist support, advice, and advocacy to 3,500 people on the brink of destitution and, in the process of this Pathways From Poverty programme, increased their annual incomes by a combined total of £650,000 while busting the limits that poverty places on people’s lives.
- Facilitated 11 new Fuel Banks which have supported more than 20,000 people unable to afford food, gas, or electricity.
President
Trustees
Nick Hopkins
Chair of Glasgow South West Foodbank
Richard Walker
Managing Director, Iceland Foods
Baroness Boycott
Chair of Feeding Britain and Crossbench Peer
Lord Field of Birkenhead
Crossbench Peer
Stephanie Ellis
Manager of The Welcome Network
Professor Greta Defeyter
Director of the Healthy Living Lab
Richard Gould
Former CEO of Villiers Park Educational Trust
Heidi Allen
Former Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire
The Rt Revd Tim Thornton
Bishop at Lambeth
Staff
Andrew Forsey, our National Director, can be contacted on andrew.forsey@feedingbritain.org or 07951 821 304
Elaine Hanham, our Finance and Administration Officer, can be contacted on elaine.hanham@feedingbritain.org
Rose Bray, our Project Manager, can be contacted on rose.bray@feedingbritain.org
Our Theory of Change
Feeding Britain is building a movement to eliminate hunger and its root causes, and we know we can’t do it alone. By piloting innovative new approaches, and showing how hunger can be tackled in a diverse range of places around the country, we are designing a road map for tackling hunger in our communities.
By sharing this knowledge with others and using it to work for systemic changes at a national level, we will ensure hunger becomes a thing of the past.
