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Upcoming Events

Previous
Events

The Case for Cash First - Moving on from vouchers and food parcels as a response to food insecurity in England

November 23rd 2021, 10:00-11:00am

Worrying About Money Leaflet Launch Events

South Hams 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch

September 21st 2022, 14:00-15:00pm

South Lanarkshire 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch

May 30th 2022, 12:00-1:00pm

Stroud and Cotswold 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch

May 18th 2022, 2:00-3:00pm

Tower Hamlets 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch

March 21st 2022, 11:00am-12:00pm

Brent 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch

November 24th 2021, 10:00-11:00am

Plymouth 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch

October 15th 2021, 11:00 - 12:00pm

Cornwall 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch

July 1st, 1:00 -2:00pm 2021

Glasgow 'Worrying About Money' leaflet launch

May 12th 11am - 12pm 2021

Right to Food Webinar Series,
Summer 2019

Undermining the Right to Food: The Rise of Food Charity in North America and Europe

The Right to Food and Emerging Strategies of Resistance

Living with Food Poverty & Hunger while Advocating for the RtF in North America and Europe

Interconnection between the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in North America and Europe

Other
Events

 

February 26th 2024, 14:00-15:30, Online: Money Counts Training for Trainers in Scotland

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November 8th 2023, 11:00-12:00, Online: Money Counts training for Renfrewshire

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November 7th 2023, 15:00-16:00: Building a cash first future: can we make food banks history in Scotland? (Joint event with the Trussell Trust)

 

November 6th 2023, 11:00-12:00, Online: Money Counts training for Glasgow

 

October 8th 2023, 15:00-16:00, In-person: Cash First is common sense - Ending the Need for Charitable Food Aid (Joint event with Greater Manchester Poverty Action, GMPA)

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October 5th 2023, 13:00-14:30, Online: Money Counts training for Moray

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September 29th 2023, 11:00-12:00, Online: Money Counts training for Cornwall

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September 21st 2023, 15:00-16:00, Online: Money Counts training for Bradford

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July 3rd, 13:00-14:00 and July 12th, 13:00-14:00, Online: Money Counts training for Gloucestershire

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June 8th, 10:00am-12:00pm 2023, In-person: Support people facing financial hardship in Cornwall

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June 7th, 12:00-1:30pm 2023, Online: Moray Money Counts training

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October 6th, 10:30am 2022, Online: South Hams 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

October 3rd, 9.30am 2022, Online: Inverclyde 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

September 29th, 2:00pm 2022, Online: West Suffolk 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

June 8th, 2:00-3:00pm 2022, Online/In person: Leeds 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

May 25th, 1:00-2:00pm 2022, Online: North Somerset 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

March 22nd, 1:00-2:00pm 2022, Online: Wandsworth 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

March 15th, 1:00-2:00pm 2022, Online: Sedgemoor 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

February 8th, 4:00-5:30pm 2022, IFAN AGM
 

January 27th, 10:00-11:00am 2022, Online: 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch (Mole Valley, Epsom and Ewell, Reigate and Banstead)
 

November 17th, 10:30 - 11:30am 2021, Online: Southwark 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

October 12th, 10:00 - 11:00am 2021, Online: Dudley 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

October 5th, 5:00-6:00pm 2021, Online: Ending the need for emergency food aid in Scotland - together (IFAN & the Trussell Trust)
 

October 4th, 12:00 - 1:00pm 2021, Online: Orkney 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet launch
 

September 2019, London: IFAN AGM including workshops on Community Food Retail, Exit Strategies from Charitable Food Aid and the Right to Food
 

June 2019, Bristol: Taking Action To Reduce Rural Food Poverty with Sustain and the Bristol Poverty Institute
 

May 2019, Coventry: Community Food Retail Workshop
 

September 2018, Chester: Rethinking Food Aid
 

February 2018, Stockport: The Value of Stories & AG
 

November 2017, London: An audience with Andy Fisher, author of Big Hunger
 

February 2017, Southampton: Share, Learn & Connect
 

February 2017, Manchester: Resilience workshop

Event Resources

Cash First Future (27th March):

Resources page linked to the conference can be found here.

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Structural Inequalities and Food Insecurity series:

Recordings and briefings linked to our Structural Inequalities and Food Insecurity webinar series are here.

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IFAN AGM, London September 2019:

Community Food Retail: Dr Lopa Saxena, co-author of The Emergence of Social Supermarkets in Britain and IFAN trustee Robin Burgess of Northampton's Hope Centre looked at the variety of models and good practice within a rapidly growing community food retail sector providing an alternative to food bank provision. Read more here.


Exit Strategies from Charitable Food Aid: This session was led by IFAN trustee, and author of Hunger Pains: Life inside Foodbank Britain, Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite, with Matthew Van Duyvenbode, Director of Strategy and Impact at the Trussell Trust. We heard about the various strategies that have been emerging to reduce reliance on charitable food aid and about the Trussell Trust's development of a long-term plan to end the need for food banks. Read more here.

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Tackling Rural Poverty Workshop, Bristol, June 2019:

Read the briefing linked to the workshop here.

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Charitable food provision as an emergency response: sharing evidence from Canada, the USA and the UK, London, November 2018:

This was a meeting hosted by the UK Food Poverty Alliance and supported by the Independent Food Aid Network. Read a summary of the discussion here.

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Rethinking Food Aid Conference, Chester, September 2018:

Read the conference materials here.

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