Our objectives and aims

Edinburgh Food Project weas established in 2012 to provide an emergency food provision, we now also work to break the cycle of food poverty through our More Than Food programme.

Our charitable vision is for an Edinburgh without poverty, where everyone has what they need to thrive. 

Our mission is to provide food and other everyday essentials, support, and advice, while working with individuals, communities, and partners to address the root causes of poverty.

our strategic aims

relief

To offer dignified immediate relief to people experiencing poverty

We provide food parcels containing enough for three meals a day for three days together with other everyday essentials e.g. toiletries, household, and pet items to people referred to our seven foodbanks across the city.
We also provide Emergency grants through the Money Advice Service such as fuel, crisis, and clothing grants.

SUPPORT

To offer support and advice to people experiencing poverty

We aim to support people beyond the initial provision of food and other items. Our Money Advice Service provides a dedicated phone line, outreach support at our foodbank centres, and engages in casework to help people with individual issues including benefit advice and appeals.
We also invite other organisations to provide drop-in support at our foodbank centres, make referrals and signpost to other sources or help, and work with partners on delivering additional community activities.

CHANGE

To advocate for societal change

We add our voice to campaigns by the Poverty Alliance, Trussell Trust, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and others, share our learning and data, and lead by example as an employer. We include people with lived experience in everything we do, and safeguard those we work with.

our values

dignity

• We recognise the importance of the power to choose what, where, when, how, and with whom you eat and how and when you interact with services.
• We involve people with lived experience in our decision-making and provide opportunities to contribute.

respect

  • We treat individuals as a whole person.
  •  We listen and are understanding of people’s situations and will respect the choices they make.
  • We recognise difference and respond in a way that respects people and their protected characteristic or social situation.

integrity

• We conduct ourselves with integrity and ensure our work is of the highest quality.
• We are transparent, accountable for our actions and are committed to learning from experience.

positivity

  • We act with unconditional positive regard, and always assume the best of people and situations.
  • We do not accept the status quo.
  • We hold to a belief in a better future and that there is a way to achieve it.