Cardiff Foodbank was officially brought into being on 29th April 2009 as a franchise of the Trussell Trust, and is part of the National Foodbank Network. It is a project to help and support those suffering financial hardship and who are facing the reality of being unable to feed themselves or their families.

Nationwide the Network helped over 60,000 people UK wide (41,000 in 09/10)
 20-30% increase in clients due to recession
Benefit delay affects 35-45% of our clients

A Christian Initiative enabling the whole community to fight hidden hunger in Cardiff, where upwards of 50,000 are deemed 'deprived' and in some areas 78.5% of children live in benefit reliant families.

How it works

Food is donated by individuals, schools, businesses and churches and is sorted and stored for future use in the Warehouse in Ely.

Front line professional care workers such as health visitors, charities, church pastoral workers social
services, etc issue clients vouchers.

Clients can exchange vouchers for 3 days of nutritionally balanced emergency food.

Clients collect food from our distribution centres across the City where they find a safe place to chat over a hot drink and snack and receive signposting to a range of support services.

The Trussell Trust

Working to combat hidden hunger across the UK.

12.4 million people in the UK live below the poverty line, including 3 million children. Many struggle to put food on the table. Thousands simply go without.

The Trussell Trust's foodbank project, pioneered in Salisbury, is working to feed people in crisis across the UK.

For more information on the Trussell
Trust's work click here or watch the video clip below.