We have been informed that the heating at Spon Gate School is broken and so we will be unable to are unable to offer our normal drop-in advice session this coming Friday (15th December).
There is an alternative advice session available this Friday, between 9.30 – 12 noon, at Stoke Library, The Kingsway, CV2 4EA.
Due to Christmas closures, our next session at Spon Gate School will now be on Friday 12th January 2018.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Due to the bad weather, we are unable to offer any of our normal advice sessions today. This is due to building closures and travel difficulties.
If you have an appointment to see one of our advisers today, please call us on 024 76521100.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Hopefully, normal service will be restored tomorrow.
In April 2017, The Trussell Trust reported that their network of 428 food banks gave out nearly a record number of 1.2 million three-day emergency food supplies.
Issues of hunger, poverty and injustice are at the forefront of debate right now. One recent development is the Coventry Food Charter, which sets out a vision for what we can do about food poverty if we work together. It recognises the need to deal with both emergency food crises and the development of a sustainable and secure food system, the centrality of the universal right to food and the aim of achieving food justice.
There will be a public launch of the Coventry Food Charter on Thursday 16 November 2017 between 5pm-7pm at St. Mary’s Guildhall. The launch is free to attend but you must sign up on Eventbrite.
Also of interest is a recent report by Rachel Loopstra & Doireann Lalor, from Oxford University, that considers many of the issues around injustice and UK hunger. The report, published jointly with the Trussell Trust, ‘Financial insecurity, food insecurity, and disability: the profile of people receiving emergency food assistance from The Trussell Trust Foodbank Network in Britain‘, is an essential read.
You can now download our annual report for 2016/2017. This includes a report on our activities and achievements, as well as our independently examined accounts.
This report is subject to approval at our annual general meeting on 3rd November 2017.
In order to deal with your problems, and to help us demonstrate the value of our service, we may ask to collect and store personal and sensitive information about you.
To give more information about the reasons why we might need to collect information about you, and what we will do with that information, we have updated the privacy and data protection page on our website.
Unfortunately, due to staffing changes and access difficulties, we have reluctantly had to suspend our ‘drop-in’ advice service from Canley Children’s Centre at Charter Primary School.
The nearest alternative session is now at Tile Hill Children’s Centre/Family Hub in Jardin Crescent. That advice session is every Wednesday, from 9.30am.
We do hope to return to Canley in the near future and will post details here if the situation changes.
We would like to thank all the staff at the Children’s Centre and at Charter Primary School for their support.
Details of all alternative advice sessions can be found at https://covadvice.org.uk/advice/advice-calendar/
