A community project
fighting poverty at its point of need.
Every day people in the UK
go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to receiving an unexpected
bill on a low income. Trussell Trust foodbanks provide a minimum of
three days emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in
the UK. Last year our UK foodbank network fed over 60,000 people.
We partner with churches and communities to open new
foodbanks nationwide. With 100 foodbanks currently launched, our goal is
for every town to have one.
The Trussell Trust pioneered the Food Bank
idea - the Food Bank project which has been successfully run in
Salisbury since 2000. Then it was just a small operation in a shed.
In 2006-07, they fed 3,082 people including 1330 children in South
Wiltshire. To meet this need, they collected over 33 tonnes of food.
That’s enough for 75,000 meals for people who would otherwise struggle
to put food on the table.
It is an exciting project which inspired Okehampton Baptist Church to
launch Okehampton Food Bank in 2008. It is now run by volunteers from
the Okehampton Community through Okehampton Baptist Church.
Foodbanks rely on the support of local
communities. Click here to
help Okehampton foodbank.
Foodbanks rely on the support of local
communities.