2000
UK Food Banks
There are over 2000 Food banks in the UK and this number is rising weekly
1.6M
Food Bank Users in UK
1,600,000 people use food banks in the UK each year
75%
reported having health issues
75% of users reported at least one health issue in their household, over half of which were mental health problems.
94%
facing real destitution
94% of food bank users are ‘facing real destitution’ and unable to buy essentials to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.
Food Bank Food is a non-profit start-up social enterprise with the sole purpose of helping those people who need it the most, eat better and live a healthier life.
Ian, a food and lifestyle blogger, writes and shares a lot of recipes to help families eat well and healthy, but keeping to a strict budget. However, it dawned on him that potentially the type of food and budget he sticks to (about
a fiver for dinner, to feed his three kids and himself), however low it was, would still be out of reach to thousands of other people across the UK.
It didn’t take much research to conclude that with there being over 2000 active food banks serving communities all over the UK. That there are tens of thousands of people NEEDING to access these resources in order to survive each week.
