Hailsham foodbank

Aim

To keep up the demand of our service over the coming winter and going forward for the next year with food, fuel and staff resources.

We have over 50 volunteers helping our small staff team to provide emergency food parcels to those in need in our local community.

Demand is higher than ever with a 98% increase in the amount of food parcels given out compared to the same period last year.  For the first time we are having to buy in food to be able to keep up with the demand despite an increase in food donations from the public.

We fund a Citizens Advice Advisor and Debt Advisor at our sessions to help people with income maximisation and debt.  Our hope is to work towards people in our community being in a position where their income matches their essential outgoings and there is no longer a need for a foodbank.

Any funds raised will go towards the extra food we are having to buy in as well as running costs to be able to keep all our services running with the strain of almost double the amount of parcels being supplied and an increase in people experiencing debt.

This project successfully funded on 23rd February 2023