The idea
We support households in emergencies via the Blacon Beacon Foodbank hub and give struggling households short term support via our Pantry- which is only for households who are living on an income well below the average for England and struggling with food poverty. We also empower households in the long run by offering food education, postive rolemodelling and by providing households with recipe bags (including key ingredients and instructions) and digital support.
We believe that the day to day choices that people make can have a negative effect on their households financial and physical wellbeing. However, we also know, via the Maslow theory, that people need to be adequately fed in order to be able to make any changes that are needed. Our project aims to stop the immediate hunger that many households in Blacon face, whilst also providing postive rolemodelling and food education in the long term. We believe that our project has the potential to break unhealthy generational habits.
What we'll deliver
- 200 recipe bags given out to Blacon families who are low income
- 750 times when low income households are given bags of fresh fruit and vegetables
- 750 times when low income households are given food that is high in protein
Why it's a great idea
Hungry families with young children and older people living on next to nothing will be given emergency food from our Foodbank Hub- enabling them to have the food and water that is needed to function as a human.
Households living on the breadline, who are regularly having to choose between heating or nutritious food, will be given the opportunity to regularly get healthy, low cost food from the Blacon Beacon Pantry.
Long term Empowerment will be offered to all- helping those who most need it with low cost, high nutrition recipes and ingredients and digital support.
Steps to get it done
- 40 healthy recipe bags given out
- 200 healthy recipe bags given out
- 100 fruit and veg bags given out
- 300 fruit and veg bags given out
- 750 fruit and veg bags given out
