About
Bradford Central Foodbank
We are a busy city centre Foodbank serving the needs of a very deprived community. Bradford is ranked the 5th most income-deprived local authority in England with 29% of children living below the poverty line. Families are left without any money at all for weeks or months at a time due to benefit changes, delays, debt, homelessness, domestic violence. They can’t feed their families and can only turn to a Foodbank for help. We not only provide emergency food parcels, but we also work to help people overcome the root causes of food crisis. We offer benefits advice, job coaching, CV writing, fuel grants, SIM cards (when available) and legal family advice.
We work through a referral system with over 800 frontline agencies contacts in Bradford who refer families, so we know every family we help is desperate for food.
‘I was really struggling. I had been in a coma and was really poorly. I’d fallen out with my family and I’d not eaten for 3 days.’ Alison
Here at Bradford Central, we help approx 1300 people a month and give away approx £25k of food a month. All of this food is donated by the generous people, companies, churches and schools of Bradford. We have 80 amazing volunteers who give their time, many of whom have benefited from the Foodbank and want to give back.