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2.9 million emergency food parcels
23rd May 2025
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This week we released our stats on the number of emergency food parcels that Wandsworth Foodbank provided within our local community between April 2024 and March 2025.
The worrying new figures reveal that we have provided 12,638 emergency food parcels to people who couldn’t afford the essentials in Wandsworth Borough during the last twelve months – and 63% of these went to children.
Food banks like ours across the Trussell community collectively provided nearly 2.9 million emergency food parcels to people experiencing hunger and hardship in the past year, with more than 1 million of these going to children.
Food banks are a last resort for people who’ve been left isolated, facing hunger, and without enough money to live on. That’s why we’re calling on our local community to play their part and support our local food bank in any way possible, to help provide emergency food for people facing hardship.
Food banks offer hope, dignity, and relief to people facing hardship. As well as food, we welcome money donations to ensure we can continue to provide services beyond distributing emergency food, such as advice and support that unlocks money and services someone should be getting, as well as debt advice aimed at helping people out of financial hardship.
Your generous support makes a huge difference. You can help make sure Wandsworth Foodbank can continue to provide warm, compassionate, practical support and advice in the year ahead by donating food or funds to help end hunger in the UK. As we navigate meeting the need for our services, we would be incredibly grateful if you could please consider:
- Donating food or toiletries
- Making a financial donation
- Joining us in volunteering
Thank you for standing together with us. We recognise how challenging things are right now, which is why we are so grateful for your support.
Together, we will be there for people who have been left without enough money to live on. And together with Trussell and food banks across UK, we will make a transformational difference so that one day no one needs a food bank to get by.