Fighting Food Poverty

Our vision is to provide support and empowerment to households who live in an area that ranks 658 out of 12,239- making it one of the most deprived areas in the Country.

We support households in emergencies via the Blacon Beacon Foodbank hub and give struggling households short term support via our Pantry- which is only for households who are living on an income well beyond the average for England and struggling with food poverty.  We also empower households in the long run by offering food education, postive rolemodelling and by providing households with recipe bags (including key ingredients and instructions) and digital support.

We believe that the day to day choices that people make can have a negative effect on their households financial and physical wellbeing. However, we also know, via the Maslow theory, that people need to be adequately fed in order to be able to make any changes that are needed. Our project aims to stop the immediate hunger that many households in Blacon face, whilst also providing postive rolemodelling and food education in the long term. We believe that our project has the potential to break unhealthy generational habits (such as a larger amount of residents dying prematurely or having their quality of life impaired through physical or mental health difficulties than the majority of other areas in Cheshire West and Cheshire).'

17,433 is the number of times that Blacon residents were fed/helped via Blacon Beacon in 2024-many of these times include a weeks worth of food being given out.

Blacon Beacon needs your financial support to continue these life changing projects- can you help us?