Guest Blogs & Blogs by IFAN members

May 9, 2020

By Sabine Goodwin, Coordinator of the Independent Food Aid Network The last couple of months have been tumultuous. From the first days of panic buying to lockdown on Tuesday the 23rd of March, independent food banks and other food aid providers across the UK have faced challenge upon challenge...

This is a pandemic - not a famine

April 29, 2020

Trying to flatten the curve while running a food bank By Vivien Opiolka, Central and West Integration Network, Glasgow For many of us the lockdown has sharpened the awareness for our surroundings. Stepping outside once a day, we have been soaking up the sun with joy, noticing the daffodils, the...

We're calling for the UK Government to urgently provide direct income to those in need during the Coronavirus crisis. But for now independent food banks urgently require food.

March 18, 2020

Crisis tends to exposes flaws and issues in systems and planning. Food banks themselves expose the flaws and issues in a number of the systems that should be protecting people from hardship and poverty, whilst COVID-19 is exposing the flaws in the way that many food banks, including ours (The...