Cambridge City Foodbank provides help to people facing severe poverty in Cambridge and the surrounding area. Founded in 2010, we now have over 170 volunteers and 8 centres, providing food to thousands of people each year, including many children. We are part of the Trussell Trust Network.     

We work through many agencies (well over 100) who identify individuals in need and give them a voucher to come to the Foodbank. The voucher can provide food or assistance with electric and gas costs. We are a registered charity and affiliated with Trussell Trust, a family of more than 400 foodbanks in the UK.

Our staff and volunteers work together in a carefully coordinated system to enable those in the community who have enough, to give to those in the community facing crisis. In addition we operate various other initiatives, such as Fairbite, to help address long term poverty. Fairbite was set up in 2018 and operates as a food club where members can items from a range of food for a very low cost. The food offered is from surpluses that would otherwise go to waste.