About
About the Foodbank Network
The Trussell Trust supports communities and churches to open foodbanks across the UK.
Our foodbank is part of The Trussell Trust’s network of around 1,300 foodbanks, working to tackle food poverty and hunger in the local community of Richmond. We provide a minimum of three days’ nutritionally-balanced emergency food to people who have been referred in crisis (for instance by advice agencies, GPs, social services and schools), as well as support to help people resolve the crises they face.
More than 14 million people in the UK live below the poverty line. We understand that every person’s struggle with poverty is different and that it takes more than food to end hunger. So we bring together the experiences of food banks in our network, and their communities, to challenge the structural issues that lock people in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.
The Foodbank Network was founded in 2004 after four years of developing the original foodbank based in Salisbury. Since then The Trussell Trust has helped communities work together to launch foodbanks nationwide in a wide range of towns and cities.
To find out more about The Trussell Trust visit www.trusselltrust.org.