Leeds Food Aid Network
The Leeds Food Aid Network (FAN) exists to bring together a range of food aid providers, agency workers, the city Council and members of the wider public, to help tackle food poverty effectively in the city of Leeds. This is part of Food Wise Leeds and the West Yorkshire Food Poverty Network, which is connected to the national initiative Feeding Britain.
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What is the Leeds Food Aid Network
Leeds Food Aid Network (FAN) exists to help bring different people, initiatives and institutions together who are involved in tackling food poverty in the city of Leeds.
The diagram which you can see illustrates three main areas where people who are working in this field are interacting. Leeds FAN helps to stimulate these interactions so people can connect more effectively to help people struggling with food poverty.
Food Aid is a term that can be used to describe any form of food provision that assists someone in a state of food poverty. It includes Food Banks, Food Drop In’s/Soup Kitchens, Street Outreaches/Soup Runs, Parish/Food Pantries and certain forms of Social Enterprise. The diagram which provides the framework for this website shows the following.
Signposting – People and initiatives signposting/referring people who they come into contact with, who are experiencing food poverty, onto an appropriate food aid providers.
Distribution – The food industry, supermarkets, shops, individuals distributing food to food providers. The organisation FareShare plays a key part in this.
Longer Term Assistance – Signposting vulnerable people onto groups and services that can help people deal with their longer term needs e.g. addiction.
The website itself, along with people connecting through phone calls, emails, meetings helps to facilitate better communication amongst those already working to tackle food poverty. Simultaneously, we hope the website can help people outside of this particular field understand more regarding what is happening in terms of food aid in Leeds.
FoodWise Leeds and West Yorkshire poverty food network
FoodWise Leeds is a city-wide campaign managed by Leeds Food Partnership which aims to unify, promote and celebrate the people, projects, organisations and businesses that deliver good food work across Leeds.
It aims to have a broader focus stimulating dialogue and action on food in its entirety. Leeds FAN is the Food Poverty arm of FoodWise. Click here for more info. Embed – https://foodwiseleeds.org/about/
West Yorkshire Food Poverty Network
The West Yorkshire Food Poverty Network exists to bring together representatives from Calderdale, Kirkless, Leeds, Wakefield District, Bradford / Keighley to tackle food insecurity more effectively in the region. Key priorities include:
The development of networks in each area, which bring together food aid providers along with agency workers and local authorities to enact practical collaboration on the ground. This involves representatives from Leeds Food Aid Network (FAN), Feeding Bradford and Keighley, Wakefield Food Aid Network, Kirkless Emergency Food Providers Network and Calderdale Food Poverty Forum coming together to share experiences and achieve common goals, including responding to the Coronavirus pandemic.The tackling of the root causes of food poverty through effective signposting, on location support, usually in the form of debt, money, welfare support and healthcare advice and inputting into Feeding Britain the experiences of people on the ground in West Yorkshire to enable policy change.
Development of effective signposting tools which are either online or paper based so that people can assess emergency food provision. See that food is distributed effectively across the region working with key food distributors such as FareShare Yorkshire and Rethink Food.
Support the development of healthy holiday provision which includes local authorities working with the Department of Education and more independently run initiatives to provide food and activities to children during school holidays.
Promote healthy start vouchers which have recently increased in value.
Emergency Food support assistance
Please call our emergency helpline service that is running non stop all day everyday at 0800 365 435.
What the sim of the emrgency support food helpline is to ensure those in need get what they need!
At Leeds Food aid network we strive upon delivering for those in needs.
