East Grinstead Foodbank

Partner profile

We support local individuals and families in crisis who cannot afford to put food on the table, referred to us by local agencies, (such as Children & Family Centres, local primary and secondary schools, churches, hospitals, Citizens Advice, GP surgeries, in fact over 60 agencies can refer clients to us via a red foodbank voucher).

Since we started with a few food boxes in a garage in East Grinstead in December 2012, we have now helped over 7,000 people, currently averaging 30 adults & children helped per week.

As one of our volunteers wrote in December 2018:

‘Hunger doesn’t care it’s Christmas. Poverty, illness, and misfortune doesn’t come gift-wrapped. We can’t solve every problem or right every injustice. But we can lend a helping hand in a crisis’.

We operate under the auspices of the Trussell Trust, who support over 420 foodbanks over the UK.

The guidelines are for Clients to visit 3 times in any one period of a food crisis. However the local foodbank manager has some flexibility.