Food for People in Need:

A Review of Services in Rotherham,

March 2013

By Nikky Wilson

Food for People in Crisis Support Worker

Voluntary Action Rotherham

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Executive Summary

This report describes existing services providing emergency food assistance in the borough of Rotherham in 2012. Using information gathered from interviews with each of the 12 organisations offering food, it gives a detailed account of the different types of organisations in the Food for People in Crisis Partnership and the nature of the assistance they offer as well as considering how this is resourced and who they help.

Most FIC organisations are small, faith based and strongly independent with many operating from church premises. Only two of the 12 are non-religious.

The majority (11) offer food parcels whilst 5 of them offer cooked meals. Most are based in Rotherham town centre, with outlying provision in Wath, Rawmarsh, Kimberworth and Dinnington. There is currently no provision in Maltby.

Clients seeking food range from those with short term financial problems to those with longer term issues such as mental health problems and drug and alcohol dependency. In the majority of cases, the causes of a crisis relate to delays or changes to welfare benefits and debt.

Although no single organisation provides a service throughout the week, FIC organisations have worked collectively to ensure that food is available from at least one source on each day of the week in the centre of Rotherham.

FIC organisations providing food parcels operate a referral system where clients are referred from other organisations. They often limit assistance to a maximum of 3 parcels per person/household. Organisations offering cooked meals do not require referrals.

FIC organisations do not generally rely on state funding but instead generate their own resources. Most of the food distributed by FIC organisations is donated from a variety of sources. This includes wholesale supermarkets, local businesses, church congregations and local schools. Only two organisations regularly buy in food. Some handle perishable foodstuffs but most rely on non-perishable food to make up food parcels. Volunteer labour is also essential to the delivery of this service: 5 organisations are entirely run by volunteers whilst several others have a paid member of staff but also recruit volunteers to carry out particular tasks.

An attempt to estimate the number of food parcels and cooked meals provided by FIC organisations suggests that over 600 parcels are given out and around 2200 cooked meals are prepared each month.

Overall FIC organisations provide an extremely cost-effective service, often combining donated food with volunteer labour and small amounts of grant funding to help a large number of very vulnerable people deal with an immediate and extremely distressing problem.

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Introduction

Within Rotherham there has been a growing awareness of food poverty as an issue facing an increasing number of individuals and families living in the borough. The effects of many different factors - the recession, unemployment, changes to the benefit system, stagnant wages and rising food prices as well as debt to name a few - have precipitated many people into crisis situations where they find themselves struggling to pay bills and unable to afford to buy food.

In 2011 Rotherham Council asked Voluntary Action Rotherham (VAR) to identify which organisations in the borough offered food to people in crisis situations. VAR then brought these organisations together to share information on how they operated and who they helped. This report has been compiled from information supplied by those organisations involved in the Food for People in Crisis (FIC) meetings.

Who provides food?

At the time of writing (March 2013) twelve different VCF (voluntary, community and faith) organisations have been identified as offering (mainly free) food in various forms for people in crisis situations in Rotherham. Only one of them is actually called a food bank, a term which is currently very popular in the media and used generically, but there are many other organisations providing food who do not use this term.

The majority of FIC organisations are faith-based; they include four branches of the Salvation Army, two local churches, two Christian organisations set up to help homeless people and a church-run food bank which is a franchise of the Trussell Trust1. The only secular providers are the local branch of the British Red Cross and Food AWARE, a Community Interest Company whose purpose is to redistribute surplus food. For many of these organisations, food provision is part of a package of services they offer and may not be seen as their main activity.

Organisation Cooked meals Food parcels Clothes

Location

Shiloh Rotherham √ √ √ Rotherham town centreThe Hub Christian Community √ √ √ Rotherham town centreThe Underground Mission √ √ Rotherham town centreBritish Red Cross √ √ Rotherham town centreStreet Life Support √ √ Rotherham town centreLighthouse Homes √ Rotherham town centreRotherham Foodbank √ Rotherham town centreSalvation Army, Kimberworth √ KimberworthSalvation Army, Wath √ WathSalvation Army, Dinnington √ DinningtonSalvation Army, Rawmarsh √ RawmarshFood AWARE (distributes food across the borough)

√ Warehouse in Hellaby

1 The Trussell Trust is a national charity which works with churches and community organisations to set up food banks across England. Rotherham Foodbank is a franchise of the Trussell Trust and therefore follows procedures and systems set by the national organisation.

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In addition to those organisations formally recognised as providing food, it is likely that some churches and schools in the borough, not currently known to the FIC group, also offer food to people in crisis situations but on an informal basis, responding to need as it arises.

Type of services offered and who they help

There is a considerable amount of diversity in the type of assistance offered. This often depends on the origins and aims of individual organisations; there is no standardised model that all follow. The majority (11) offer food for people to take home (i.e. food parcels) but five of them also offer cooked food to be eaten on their premises. One (British Red Cross) offers supermarket vouchers to clients as well as food parcels. Most of them operate from a base such as a church kitchen but one organises a mobile soup kitchen, taking a van into the centre of Rotherham on a Saturday night. In addition to food parcels and cooked food, some organisations also collect and distribute clothes and bedding. Several provide advice to clients on issues such as housing and health and signpost them to other organisations for assistance.

Some organisations seek to limit their offer of free food to particular types of clients. Shiloh, Lighthouse and Street Life Support focus their services on homeless adults and Rotherham Foodbank aims to assist mainly families. British Red Cross deals only with asylum seekers, particularly those that have failed in their application to remain in Britain and are destitute. In contrast to this the four branches of the Salvation Army, the Underground Mission and The Hub Christian Community offer assistance to anyone who requires it, regardless of age or family circumstances.

A distinction need to be made between organisations offering short term or longer term assistance. Most organisations offering food parcels limit this to a maximum of three per person/household within a fixed period of time. This means that they intend to provide support for a short periods, to help clients deal with emergencies or unforeseen situations rather than longer term or chronic problems. However some churches operate a flexible policy where, if they feel the client needs longer term support, they will provide food parcels for a longer period of time. Organisations offering free meals do not set such limits and allow clients to return as many times as they wish.

The reasons why people seek emergency food are varied. Amongst those seeking food parcels, the majority of clients have had problems with their benefits, often resulting from changes or delays in benefit payments. This often precipitates people into a short term crisis whilst they wait for issues to be resolved; during this period their benefit payments are stopped. Other clients have longer term problems relating to low incomes and accumulating debt and reach a crisis because they simply don’t have enough money to pay for all their household expenses. This can affect working families on low wages as well the unemployed. Other causes of a crisis situation include domestic violence, eviction, family breakup, redundancy or reductions in working hours, recent release from prison, bereavement and illness.

FIC organisations offering cooked meals often deal with clients suffering from enduring problems. This includes people with mental health problems, drug and alcohol dependency as well as those experiencing homelessness, unemployment and also loneliness and isolation.

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Geographical spread

Seven of the twelve organisations are based in Rotherham town centre. Outside the town centre cover is more limited with four branches of the Salvation Army providing a service in Wath, Rawmarsh, Dinnington and Kimberworth. Food AWARE has previously held contracts with the NHS and Social Services to deliver food to several Children’s Centres across the borough but has had to reduce its coverage due to funding changes. In exceptional situations some organisations will deliver a food parcel to a client living outside Rotherham town centre if they are unable to come and collect it themselves. However most do not have the capacity to do this on a regular basis as they have no funding to cover transport costs.

At present there appears to be no formal provision of a free food service in the eastern part of the borough (Maltby and surrounding area) although there may be local churches that do so on an irregular basis. In 2011 a local church set up a shop offering subsidised food but this closed after a few months as it proved to be too costly to run. Food AWARE is intending to set up a food ‘bank’ in Maltby in March, offering food parcels at a cost of £2.50 each on a Wednesday from Addison Road Day Care Centre.

Opening Times

Most organisations do not offer a service throughout the full working week but operate on specific days, often relating to which days they obtain food supplies. However the organisations based in Rotherham town centre have worked collaboratively in order to ensure that food is on offer (from different sources) on every day of the week. The list below indicates what each organisation offers on which days of the week.

Shiloh Cooked breakfast and lunch, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9.00am – 1.00pm.Occasional food parcels on the days they are open.

The Hub Christian CommunityFood parcels by referral, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Cooked breakfasts on Thursdays.

The Underground MissionFood parcels on Tuesdays and Thursdays; referrals from Rotherham Police (mainly Eastern European families).Cooked lunch on Tuesdays.

British Red CrossFood parcels for asylum seekers and refugees, Tuesdays, 12.30 to 3.30pm.

Street Life SupportHot food and food parcels (packed lunch) for homeless people, Saturday nights, 7pm onwards.

Lighthouse HomesCooked meal on Sunday nights, 6pm to 7pm

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Rotherham FoodbankFood parcels; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12 – 2pm. Available only to clients with food vouchers: five organisations in Rotherham (including 2 Children’s Centres, the Probation Service and CAB) are given vouchers every week.

Kimberworth Salvation Army Food parcels by referral, when needed (no specified day)

Wath-upon-Dearne Salvation ArmyFood parcels by referral and through the local Children’s Centre, when needed (no specified day).

Rawmarsh Salvation ArmyFood parcels by referral, Wednesdays, 12 noon to 2.30pm.

Dinnington Salvation ArmyFood parcels on Saturdays, 12 noon until food is gone.

Food AWARECheap fruit and vegetables available on Fridays and Saturdays from premises in Hellaby.Food delivered to a variety of organisations which then pass it on to people in need.

Referrals

Cooked meals are generally provided without a referral; anyone who turns up at the relevant location will be offered a free meal. These are offered by Street Life Support, Shiloh Rotherham, the Underground Mission, The Hub and Lighthouse Homes. However the situation for food parcels is different with most organisations (except Rotherham Foodbank) using a referral system to verify the authenticity of the people requesting help and limit demand for their services. Referring agencies are asked to provide evidence of need for the individual being referred, in the form of a letter, email or phone call. This system is used to ensure that the assistance FIC organisations provide is to cover short term, crisis situations and to prevent abuse of their generosity. Several specify that they can only provide a maximum of three food parcels to one person/household. However in practice many of these organisations are more flexible when presented with genuine cases of need; some will offer food parcels on a longer term basis or to people who have turned up without a referral.

A template letter has been developed by FIC organisations which has been widely circulated to organisations that they receive referrals from. Referrals come from a variety of statutory organisations such as Job Centre Plus, Social Services, Children’s Centres, the police and NHS staff such as health visitors. Voluntary organisations such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, Lifeline, Shelter and housing associations also make referrals.

Unlike the other FIC organisations, Rotherham Foodbank does not accept referrals by letter but instead operates a voucher system. This is a requirement of their Trussell Trust membership and has been set in place to help food banks manage the supply and demand for food. Each week the Foodbank emails a limited number of vouchers (usually five) to a fixed number of distributing organisations in the borough. They include Rotherham CAB, the Probation Service and two

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Children’s Centres which are then authorised to issue these vouchers to clients. Once the vouchers are used up for that period, no more referrals can be made from those organisations.

Food sources

A variety of different methods are employed by FIC organisations to obtain the food they need. A distinction needs to be made between organisations receiving and distributing fresh food and those handling non-perishable supplies. This has a significant impact on how quickly they need to pass food on and who they give it to; fresh supplies are generally provided to ‘regular’ clients whilst non-perishable supplies can be stored to be used as needed. Some organisations handle both fresh and non-perishable produce.

Only one organisation (Shiloh) buys produce from FareShare2 in Barnsley which is delivered to them on a weekly basis. Several organisations collect free food donated from supermarkets and wholesalers that is about to reach its expiry date, often travelling outside Rotherham to source this. Costco in Sheffield and Marren’s in Barnsley are the main sources of food for the Underground Mission and all four branches of the Salvation Army. Food AWARE collects surplus fresh food from Sainsbury’s supermarkets and commercial growers and redistributes it to organisations working in poorer communities. This type of food is usually perishable and needs to be passed on to clients on the same day as it is collected unless the receiving organisations have adequate storage facilities such as a freezer or cold storage space. A feature of this system is that the receiving organisations have no control over what they are given; this depends entirely on what stock the wholesalers and growers are discarding.

Church-based organisations tend to rely on donations of non-perishable supplies from their own congregations and have links to other churches and local schools that also donate food. The Hub uses this method to obtain supplies of food for its food store; if they have a shortage of a particular item, they will email their congregation, asking them to contribute that item. Organisations such as Rotherham Foodbank have a ‘shopping list’ of goods that they require for food parcels and ask their donors to provide these goods (see Appendix 1). In some cases organisations supplement donated supplies of non-perishable food by buying additional fresh produce, using funds they have generated themselves.

A summary of food sources and running costs for the different organisations is given in Appendix 2.

Sources of cash and food

The average cost of items in a food parcel, based on figures obtained from Rotherham Foodbank, is £21 but this will vary, according to whether the applicant is single or a family. A rough estimate (from a member of staff at The Hub) of the cost for a single person is £13, for a couple £15 to £16, and £25 for a family. Food parcels are generally expected to contain enough food to last for three days.

2 FareShare is a national charity which aims to tackle reduce poverty and tackle food waste. Organisations receiving food from them pay an annual fee and then delivery costs aswell. However this still proves to be an economical way of obtaining bulk supplies of food.

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FIC organisations use a variety of strategies to obtain the resources they need to offer a service. None of them receive statutory funding and many rely on regular donations of food and money from local sources such as churches and schools. Most use their own premises as a base to run the service from. A few such as Street Life Support and Rotherham Foodbank have obtained small grants to pay for food and transport costs. However even those that do have sources of funding enabling them to buy food still tend to operate ‘on a shoestring’ and suffer from a lack of security about where future funds and food supplies will come from.

The majority of organisations offering food parcels use donated food and so this is often not a significant cost to them at present. However, since they have limited control over what is donated, some organisations use their own funds to buy in items that are in short supply or perishable. Others such as Street Life Support and British Red Cross (BRC) buy all their supplies whilst Shiloh relies on a combination of bought and donated food. In the case of BRC, funding comes from the national organisation. Other costs associated with collecting and storing food, and even delivering it occasionally, are often absorbed by the individual organisations or their volunteers; most have no external funding to cover such things.

When asked how they might respond to an increase in requests for assistance as changes in the welfare benefit system start to impact, most organisations felt they could not increase their supply of food as this is largely dependent on donations. They were also aware that they could not significantly increase the amount of food they buy as they didn’t have funds to pay for this on a regular basis. Several suggested that they would simply have to give less food to each person requesting it in order to be able to deal with this problem. Volunteers from one organisation said that, if they ran out of funds to provide a service, this would be interpreted as a message from God to cease their activities.

Delivering the service

Volunteers are essential to the delivery of food services in Rotherham; most organisations rely heavily on volunteers to collect, pack and in some cases cook and serve food. Five organisations (Shiloh, The Underground Mission, two branches of the Salvation Army and Street Life Support) have no paid staff and are entirely run by volunteers. Others such as Rotherham Foodbank and British Red Cross have a paid co-ordinator but use volunteers to perform particular tasks such as making up food parcels and talking with clients using their service. Volunteers are often recruited through church networks and are strongly motivated by their faith to get involved in this type of community work. Even where there are paid staff involved in providing the service, this may only be part of their role.

Scale of provision

Whilst the exact number of food parcels provided by all the different organisations is not recorded, it has been estimated (by the FIC support worker) at somewhere between 100 and 160 every week. (No figures exist to indicate how many people in total are sustained by these parcels; some will be offered to families, although information from a survey carried out by Rotherham CAB indicated that the majority of clients asking for food parcels were single.) In addition to this at least 500 cooked

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meals are served on a weekly basis. Numbers of beneficiaries are not fixed but tend to vary seasonally (winter being a time when figures are higher) and also in relation to other factors, including school holidays (when children do not receive free school meals). It is likely that demand for these services will increase in 2013 as the changes to welfare benefits begin to impact on the local population. Appendix 3 gives a breakdown of figures for each of the 12 organisations.

Conclusions

From the description of services given above, the following points can be made:

There is no single provider in the borough that offers a comprehensive service. Instead, largely as a result of historical factors, a range of different organisations have been set up to offer food to people in a crisis situation, operating on different days and targeting different groups. Although this introduces some complexity in understanding who does what, this diversity of providers can be seen as a positive feature, resulting in different types of clients being catered for.

Most organisations offering food are small, faith-based and strongly independent. They have not previously relied on state funding or contracts and therefore are not familiar with the culture associated with operating in this type of environment. Motivations among them for providing the service may also be different from other voluntary and community groups ; this needs to be recognised when considering how services could be further developed and also how they will respond to an increase in demand for assistance.

The total amount of food delivered to people in need (in the form of food parcels and meals) is highly dependent on the strategies adopted by different organisations to source free or cheap food and also the number of volunteers that can be recruited to deal with the practical tasks of organising food parcels and cooking meals. These are therefore the limiting factors determining how many people can be helped; most organisations do not have the resources to buy in large quantities of food or pay staff to do this work.

Whilst donated food (from Costco, Marrin’s and other businesses, also churches and schools) provides a very useful supply of foodstuffs to pass on to people, it does not always provide all the different types of food needed to create meals from or make up food parcels. Therefore organisations are often required to spend their own funds to supplement food parcels or meals with items that haven’t been donated.

Currently many of the organisations offering food operate on very limited budgets and rely heavily on obtaining donated food and volunteer labour to keep their costs to a minimum. They do not charge organisations referring people for food but instead often generate funds to provide the service from their own local fundraising efforts or small grants.

The uncertainity of their funding situation makes it difficult for these organisations to plan ahead and consider expanding or developing their services. Transport is a significant cost for many organisations (mainly in the collection of food) but most of them do not receive any funding to pay for this.

In terms of the number of people helped and the cost of this service, FIC organisations provide excellent value for money. Although it is not possible to calculate the total cost of providing this service (as so many organisations absorb administrative and other costs into

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their own overheads), it is clear that organisations can use small amounts of money very effectively to offer assistance to people in need. Without the benefits of volunteer labour, donated food and free premises, the cost of this provision would be significantly higher.

Evidence from a small grant scheme for FIC organisations, set up in 2012, indicates that even small sums of money can make a difference to individual organisations, enabling them to use resources creatively and use funding to ‘fill gaps’, offering emergency food assistance to many vulnerable people in Rotherham.

The impact of this service often goes beyond simply meeting a basic human need. FIC organisations generally help extremely vulnerable people at a time when they have exhausted all other channels of support and are feeling helpless, distressed and desperate. This can have a significant impact on people’s health and wellbeing, helping them to deal with an immediate issue and relieving some of the stress associated with extreme poverty. There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that the provision of food may also help to reduce crime rates by preventing shoplifting of food.

In spite of a lack of funding for this type of activity, many FIC organisations are willing to work with clients to meet not only immediate needs of food but also offer advice and signpost them to other organisations that can help solve longer term problems.

Overall FIC organisations provide a very valuable service, helping thousands of people each year to deal with an increasingly common issue; a lack of money to buy food. Although the reasons why people find themselves in this situation are varied, in the majority of cases the need to seek emergency food often results from benefit delays and debt. A report by Rotherham CAB (‘Food for Thought: Emergency Food Relief at Rotherham CAB’, February 2013) states that ‘as well as supplying food aid, there is a need to look at how best to prevent people being pushed to seek food aid in the first place.’ They recommend ‘more effective management of benefit claims and debt in order to reduce the number of people needing emergency help. Targeting resources to resolve key debt and benefit issues at an early stage may prevent many people with complex problems being pushed to seek help.’ This needs to be given serious consideration.

FIC Co-ordination Work

Since July 2012 the Food for People in Crisis Partnership has benefitted from the presence of a part-time paid worker, based at VAR, who has spent time getting to know each of the twelve organisations and understand the issues they face in offering a service. This has enabled the partnership to develop strategically and work together by sharing information and sometimes even food supplies. With the assistance of the worker, they have collaborated to produce an information leaflet for referring organisations and a standard referral template to gather relevant information about clients. A joint Christmas appeal and food collection scheme was set up in November 2012 and raised over £2,800 in cash donations to fund additional meals and parcels over the Christmas holiday period; FIC organisations worked together to plan, co-ordinate and advertise this. VAR offered support with this by setting up a dedicated ‘People in Need’ bank account to receive donations and pass on funds to FIC organisations.

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In 2013 the worker has been supporting FIC organisations in a variety of ways, including keeping them informed about changes to the welfare benefit system, seeking sponsorship and advising them on possible sources of funding as well as co-ordinating meetings and preparing this report.

Funding for this post (until September 2013) and for some of the activities of FIC organisations has been provided by Rotherham NHS. In total £35,000 was allocated to Voluntary Action Rotherham in 2012 to co-ordinate the partnership and also initiate a small grant scheme for FIC organisations.

VAR small grants for food projects

In early 2012 £10,000 of the amount received was allocated to set up a small grant scheme, allowing FIC organisations to access up to £1,000 to enhance their service. To date £6,500 has been spent on this, enabling organisations to buy equipment (such as freezers, flasks, kettles and other electrical goods) and pay for expenses which have previously been difficult to fund, as well as restocking food cupboards or setting up new schemes such as breakfast clubs. Eight organisations received grants averaging £800 and have used these to maintain a service at a time when there has been an increase in the number of people seeking this type of help.

A further £12,500 will be made available for grants in 2013, using ‘left-over’ funds from the previous grant scheme and an additional £10,000 donated by the NHS. The grant scheme is administered by VAR with decisions on applications made by a panel including NHS and RMBC staff.

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Appendix 1: The shopping list for Rotherham Foodbank

Milk (UHT or powdered)

Sugar

Fruit juice (carton)

Cereals

Jam

Soup

Pasta sauces

Tomatoes (tinned)

Instant mashed potato

Rice/pasta

Tinned meat/fish

Tinned fruit

Sponge or rice pudding (tinned)

Biscuits or snacks

Appendix 2:

Costs, sources of labour and funding for FIC Organisations

Shiloh Running costs for a building, food, utilities etc. of between £1,500 and £2,000 per month. Funds raised from private donations. No paid staff.Food is mostly bought; some from FareShare and the rest bought from local shops. Some food (non-perishable) is donated from local churches and bread from Roses Bakery.

The Hub Christian CommunityCosts for premises, storage and transport of food are absorbed by the church. Volunteers deliver the breakfast service and a member of staff organises food parcels, on request .Food comes almost entirely from donations from their congregation and other local churches.

The Underground MissionAlmost all the food they use for meals and food parcels is obtained free of charge from Costco and volunteers are used to organise both the meal and food parcels. No paid staff.Costs of any additional food needed and transport to collect it covered by the church.

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British Red CrossUses its own funds to provide supermarket vouchers for failed asylum seekers.One paid part-time worker delivers the service (one day a week).Food parcels are bought from Food AWARE, using a small grant from NHS funds.

Street Life SupportCost of approximately £6,000 p.a. to deliver a soup kitchen, paying for food, equipment, a van and insurance. Seeks grant funding from a variety of sources to cover these costs.Food is bought in from Morrisons supermarket on a weekly basis.No paid staff – this service is provided by a rota of volunteers.

Lighthouse HomesNo costings available for the Sunday night cafe; all food is donated by volunteers who buy it, prepare meals at home and then bring them to the centre. Volunteers from local churches (over 70 of them) organise a rota to deliver this service.Food parcels are largely derived from harvest festival collections by local schools and churches; once these are used up, they are not replenished.

Rotherham Food BankEstimated costs of around £1,500 per month. Also £1,500 Trussell Trust membership fee and an annual membership fee of £360. In addition to this there are administrative costs, rent for premises and transport costs. Food is largely donated from churches and schools.One paid administrator and seven volunteers deliver the service.

Kimberworth Salvation Army No costings available; general running costs absorbed by the church.Fresh food is obtained from Costco, free of charge and this is supplemented by food items bought from the branch’s own funds. The SA officers administer the service.

Wath-upon-Dearne Salvation ArmyAs for Kimberworth; fresh food obtained from Costco and some foodstuffs are bought in using funds raised by the local branch. The pastor and her assistant run this service.

Rawmarsh Salvation ArmyAnnual costs estimated at £600 p.a. but this does not include food (most of which comes from Marren’s , free of charge). Costs include transport (food collection) and buying additional supplies to make up food parcels, using their own funds. Volunteers are used to deliver the service. Dinnington Salvation ArmyNo costings available; all food is obtained from Costco, free of charge. Volunteers are used to deliver the service.

Food AwareNo costings available. Has previously had NHS and RMBC contracts to deliver fresh food to Children’s Centres in the borough. Costs include operating a van to collect food discarded by supermarkets and commercial growers, storage and delivery to projects.One paid member of staff and some volunteer labour used.

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Appendix 3: An estimate of the number of food parcels and cooked meals provided by FIC organisations

Organisation Food Parcels Cooked mealsShiloh Rotherham

3 to 5 per week= approx. 16 per month

On average 130 meals per day, 3 times a week = 390 per week= 1560 per month

The Hub 59 in Oct, Nov, Dec 2012= 19 per month

Average of 25 per week= 100 per month

The Underground Mission 5 to 10 food parcels twice a week= 54 per month

Average of 40 meals, once a week= 160 per month

British Red Cross Average of 20 per week= 80 per month

Street Life Support Average of 30 parcels (packed lunches) per night, once a week= 120 per month

Average of 50 people fed per night, once a week= 200 meals per month

Lighthouse Homes5 – 6 per month, depending on supplies?

Average of 50 people fed per night, once a week= 200 meals per month

Rotherham Foodbank Average of 20 parcels per week= 80 per month

Kimberworth Salvation Army Average of 10 parcels per week= 40 per month

Rawmarsh Salvation Army Average of 30 parcels per week= 120 per month

Dinnington Salvation Army Average of 20 - 25 parcels per week= 90 per month

Wath Salvation Army Average of 11parcels per week= 44 per month

Food Aware – provides food to other organisations to distribute rather than directly to clients

TOTALS 669 per month 2220 per month

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