Food
Current Needs
Can you help with any of the below:
Volunteer food parcel delivery drivers are always needed to go into a standby pool for in the event of another national or local lockdown.
Storage space provided by local business with free storage/warehousing available can always be put to good use.
Skilled volunteers to work on a bespoke database and on a few other I.T. back office issues
Please email Duncan if you think you can help.
Duncan House - Food Network Leader
By coordinating the emergency food efforts across the churches and projects, we aim to maximise provision, eliminate duplication and make sure that anyone in need in Southampton can be fed, whilst
helping people to move on from being dependent on emergency food aid back towards self-sufficiency.
Food Safety Toolkit
Are you thinking of starting a food aid project in and around Southampton. If the answer is Yes then this Food Service Toolkit will be able to help.
This toolkit has been created as a result of the Summit held by Love Southampton in 2022. The aim of the toolkit is to provide assistance and guidance in the creation and delivery of your new project.
Good Luck!!
Food Network
SCM Basics Bank
Since 1996 Southampton City Mission have been giving out food, clothes and basic toiletries to anyone in need in Southampton through their Basics Bank project. Working through trusted referral partners and an electronic voucher system, to provide emergency food and clothes for those who fall through the gaps in the benefit system or are struggling with one of life’s crises.
Love Your Neighbour
Saint Mary’s Church are working in partnership with other local organisations to serve and support some of the most vulnerable in our city, as part of the national Love Your Neighbour campaign working together with churches and organisations across the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Big Breakfast
Above Bar Church have been providing free food to any who need it, throughout lockdown, working in partnership with Love Southampton’s food network. We estimate roughly £25k of food was distributed in the first 12 weeks alone.
City Catering
City Catering Southampton believes that access to good food is a right and not a privilege. Therefore, they exist to make a tangible nutritional difference in people's lives. They do this through serving School Food Plan and Food for Life compliant meals in 46 of Southampton's schools whilst also delivering hot, nutritious care meals into the homes of vulnerable and elderly adults across the city.
Gems
A volunteer run organisation who supply the vulnerable and families with food parcels.