No Child Should Go Hungry This Winter

For many families, affording enough food for themselves and their children can be a challenge. In our recent survey, 1 in 3 UK working parents said they have struggled to afford to feed their child in the last year, with 1 in 7 parents saying they regularly struggle.

As we head into winter this becomes an even bigger issue with many having to make the difficult choice between heating and eating. Your donation will help us rescue more food and get it to the organisations working on the frontline to feed those in need this winter.

"Without the food bank, I know for a fact I’d be struggling. We get veg, but mainly we get the [Felix] meals. We get bananas and fruit, whatever’s going, we take. It’s for the kids, it’s not for me. I can go days without eating, but when they say ‘Dad, I’m hungry’ and open the cupboard, there’s nothing in there.

I put all this in my freezer and my fridge, we can open the fridge and think what we want to eat. It saves me 80 pound a week. I'm very, very much grateful."

H, who accesses Community Space SE16 food bank

Why Felix?

The Felix Project believes in a vision of a London where good food is never wasted and no-one goes hungry. We rescue good, surplus food from the food industry that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste and deliver it to hundreds of food banks, charities, primary schools and holiday programmes in London.

"This is my son Felix, who died suddenly from Meningitis in 2014. Felix was full of compassion for those without his advantages and, in early 2015, I was searching for a way to commemorate him. What stuck in my mind was a boys’ football tournament, he’d played in. Felix told me he’d been upset to learn that many of the 10-year-old boys on the opposing team hadn’t had anything to eat that day."

- Justin Byam Shaw