Edinburgh Food Project CEO Laura van Der Hoeven responds to the launch of The Trussell Trust’s Scottish Parliamentary Election manifesto.Welcome to 2026 – it’s an election year! As a member of the network we are delighted to welcome Trussell’s manifesto for the Holyrood elections in May, which demands that politicians of all parties commit to […]
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Edinburgh Food Project is the charity of the month for Edinburgh Community Bookshop. As many of us begin to plan the gifts we will buy, the tree we will decorate and the dinners we will eat, thousands of people in Edinburgh are having to turn to foodbanks across the city. For too many people this festive season will be full of challenges –
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Volunteers are the lifeblood of Edinburgh Food Project. Last year our amazing team of over 200 volunteer workers put in a total of 11,950 hours of unpaid work driving vans, making up food boxes and manning foodbanks, all to ensure emergency food gets to the people who need it. This Volunteer’s Week (June 2-8) we
Three local foodbanks will each field a team of seven sponsored racers, ready to bounce, slide, swing, and leap through an inflatable 5K obstacle course – and we need YOU to get involved! In a first-of-its-kind challenge Edinburgh Food Project is teaming up with East Lothian Foodbank and West Lothian Foodbank for an exciting, fun-filled
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Will you take the plunge and support foodbanks? This is your chance take on an exhilarating abseil challenge to raise money for Edinburgh Food Project!Today we are launching the latest Edinburgh Food Project fundraising challenge – an amazing sponsored abseil from the iconic Forth Bridge. Last year four brave souls took the plunge, including our
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The UK government is considering making £5bn in cuts to financial support for ill and disabled people. Edinburgh Food Project opposes these cuts in the strongest terms. The changes will affect around 1 million people and are “likely to reduce the Treasury funding” to pay for welfare benefits in Scotland, the BBC reports. Some people
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Due to the extreme weather predicted tomorrow, we have reluctantly taken the decision to close all our foodbank centres and our warehouse tomorrow Friday 24 January for safety reasons. Please do not to travel to any of our locations on Friday. We will return to our usual schedule on Monday once the storm has passed.
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In August 2023 Edinburgh Food Project opened a new Community Hub at the Thistle Centre of Wellbeing in Craigmillar. The Hub is a partnership between the Edinburgh Food Project and the Thistle Foundation that brings together, under one roof, a suite of support tailored to meet the needs of the local community. It has been
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“It’s time for me to build my own skills and knowledge, and my new role at Change Mental Health offers me the opportunity to learn and grow and to develop my career. But Edinburgh Food Project has been a brilliant place to work and I’m confident that the next Director will find it every bit
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Edinburgh Food Project is committed to ending the need for foodbanks and to making sure that everyone has what they need to thrive. Our foodbank centres have been welcoming drop-ins from other agencies for some time, and our dedicated Money Advice Service has been helping people to make financial gains. We wanted to bring everything together
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