
The Food Banks are facing a major crisis and they need your help.
The Problem
With the country facing a cost of living crisis, increases in fuel costs and energy costs, plus food inflation running at about 16% more people, many of whom are working are having to rely on the Food Banks for support.
The number of people using the Food Banks has increased by 60% in the last year. At the same time donations to food banks have fallen by 50%.
The Trussell trust, which runs many Food Banks throughout the country (but not Havant) for the first time launched an emergency crisis appeal.
Donate Food
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Havant Rotary’s Feed Havant Project
Feed Havant is a Havant Rotary Club Project set up to help the Food Banks with the excellent job they are doing to help people in a time of crisis.
Havant Rotary Club has already donated over £20,000 to support the Food Banks in Havant, Leigh Park, Emsworth, Waterlooville and Hayling Island. In addition we have already collected and distrubuted to the food banks a large number of trolleys of food from our collection days at local supermarkets and our Take a Can to work project.
Our aims are:
- Increase the awareness of the service that The Food Banks can provide if you need help, and how to reach them.
- To increase food donations to all our food banks.
- Raise money both from ourselves, the general public and local businesses for the Food Banks, to enable them to be able to purchase food when donations are low.
- To attempt to persuade the supermarkets to keep food donations local.
- To increase the co-operation of the food bank network as working together will help their effectiveness and increase their buying power.
