All our staff, volunteers and trustees would like to wish you a very happy Christmas period and all our best wishes for 2018.
Our advice service will be closed from 1pm on Friday 22nd December with most of our sessions reopening on Tuesday 2nd January. For details of all our advice services in the new year, check our advice page.
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.
