Help us to bring a smile to a child this Easter
This Easter, Agents Giving are urging our property industry friends to collect Easter Eggs for local food banks. You can collect up Easter treats in your office and invite your local communities to join in and take part.
Help bring a smile to a child’s face this Easter so they can have an egg-cellent time. With soaring energy prices and sky-high inflation Trussell are reporting that families are struggling to afford both their bills and meals, basically ‘Eat or Heat’.
Please help by making an Easter Egg donation, all donations will allow food banks to help families do more than just survive and add a little treat to families forced to using Food banks just to survive. Last year hundreds of eggs were donated to help the appeal, this year we’d love for us collectively donated even more.
Register your interest and collection below.
Easter Egg Campaign
More than 1.42 million emergency food parcels distributed in past six months
Winter is the busiest time for food banks in the Trussell community. Last winter, 600,000 food parcels were distributed to people facing hunger and poverty and they expect this year to be just as challenging as more people struggle to afford even the essentials.
More than 1.42 million emergency food parcels distributed in past six months. Food banks in our community gave out just over 1,428,000 emergency food parcels across the UK between April and September in 2024. This includes 508,000 parcels provided for children facing hunger across the UK.
Overwhelming Support & Love
Our local food banks have been overwhelmed by the love, compassion and empathy of people. By standing alongside them, you’re helping food banks to dynamically adapt to the challenging task ahead. The passion and resilience of these food banks is nothing short of outstanding.
They are determined to continue to provide the lifeline of emergency food for the people who need it most – even if this means completely overhauling their delivery model or processes to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
People and families with urgent financial needs are the biggest challenge yet for all food banks, and they don’t yet know how things will unfold with the cost of living for utilities at their highest ever. Trussell and other food bank centres are working with their network on how best to support people, and wherever possible, food banks will continue to provide the lifeline of emergency food.
We encourage you where possible to continue donating
Food banks are running low on many items and this is where as an industry we can help, with anything we might have in our cupboard, ask your friends, family and neighbours if they can also donate a tin or two to collect up and donate, or buy a couple of items at the supermarket collection bin. Food banks are still open, some on reduced hours and allocating one drop off area but remain in desperate need of food.
We encourage you where possible to continue donating after checking with your local food bank what items are most needed, these lists can be found on the food banks website.
Thank you for all your support you will make a difference.
Individuals are going hungry every day for a range of reasons
Trussell have more than 1,200 food bank centres in their network, about two thirds of the food banks in the UK giving services like money advice, holiday clubs and cookery courses, helping support people in crisis across the UK, where more than 14 million people live below the poverty line.
Individuals are going hungry every day for a range of reasons, from benefit delays to receiving an unexpected bill on a low income.
Trussell recognise that stopping hunger is about More Than Food, which is why they work with food banks to provide a range of services like money advice and Fuel Banks, helping people to break the cycle of poverty
Samantha Lane, Head of Fundraising, said
“Thanks to Agents Giving for linking local estate agents to food banks across the UK. and for encouraging them to support Our food bank network. Food banks rely on local businesses like estate agents to help them deliver vital services within their communities and break the cycle of poverty so a huge thank you from us all at Trussell Trust.”
Please do what you can to help your local food bank to give emergency food and support to people in crisis now in your communities. This is a real problem people are facing so please do all you can to help make a difference.
Send in any photos of your food parcel collections or fundraising, let us know how you are planning to help and we can help you promote it.
Please note that food banks are currently very busy and mostly run by volunteers, please contact them direct through their email, which can be found on their web page or call before donating. In some instances you might be able to organise a visit to the food bank to deliver your parcel donation. They may be able to come along to your offices to tell you a bit more about the great work they do, or give you a call back to discuss how best you can get involved.
Case Studies
Agents are already doing a wonderful job supporting their local foodbanks.
