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Our Impact

Behind every food parcel is a person, a household and circumstances that deserve to be understood.

Our impact is measured not only in food distributed, but in conversations held, dignity protected, partnerships built and communities strengthened. Through data, insight and lived experience, we work to understand hardship across Perth and Kinross and respond with compassion.

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Creating Hope Through Every Donation

4,546

Emergency food parcels distributed (2025)

8,732

People supported

2,561

Children supported

82,293 kg

Food distributed

50+

Volunteers

6,395

Volunteer hours contributed

894

First-time households

1,611

Unique households supported

Beyond the Numbers

Every statistic represents a person, a household and circumstances that deserve to be understood. The figures help us measure demand, but they tell only part of the story. Our impact is also found in conversations held, dignity protected, partnerships built and communities strengthened.

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Growing Need

Changing Communities, Growing Demand

Opening York Place in 2024 marked more than a move of premises. It created an opportunity to intentionally design a foodbank around the needs of people and the values that guide our work..

2013

  • 345 parcels
  • 425 adults
  • 132 children

2025

  • 4,546 parcels
  • 6,171 adults
  • 2,561 children

What began as a small community response supporting 345 emergency food parcels in 2013 now supports thousands of people each year. By 2025, Perth and Kinross Foodbank distributed 4,546 emergency food parcels, supporting 8,732 people across Perth and Kinross. This growth reflects more than increasing demand. It reflects changing pressures within our communities, growing complexity and the reality that food insecurity rarely exists in isolation.

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Understanding Food Insecurity

Food Insecurity Is Rarely Just About Food

People often imagine foodbank use as being caused by empty cupboards alone.
Our experience tells a different story. Behind every food parcel is a person, a household and circumstances that deserve to be understood. People come to Perth and Kinross Foodbank for many reasons. Rising costs of essentials remain one of the most common pressures we see, but they are rarely the whole story.

Rising costs of essentials

More households struggling to keep pace with everyday living costs.

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Income instability

Changes in work, reduced hours, sick pay and delayed income.

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Health and Wellbeing

Physical and mental health challenges affecting income, daily life and resilience.

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Unexpected Life Events

Relationship changes, housing pressures, debt and sudden crisis.

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For some, the foodbank is needed after a single unexpected event. For others, it is the result of months or years of trying to keep going under sustained pressure. Food insecurity is often a reflection of wider financial hardship. That is why our work goes beyond providing emergency food. We create space for conversation, understanding and support, helping people access wider services where appropriate and responding to the person, not only the parcel. Because when we understand why someone needs support, we are better placed to stand alongside them. Food insecurity is not a personal failing. It is often the visible impact of wider financial pressure and life circumstances.

More Than a Parcel

Emergency food remains an important part of what we do, but our impact reaches beyond the food people receive. Every parcel is prepared thoughtfully and tailored where possible to reflect individual needs, including cooking facilities, dietary requirements, allergies, cultural considerations and family circumstances. But often it is the support alongside the parcel that matters just as much.
A warm welcome.
Time to talk.
Someone listening without judgement.
Space to explain what is happening.
An opportunity to ask for help.
Through our relational model, we take time to understand what has brought someone to the foodbank and where appropriate connect people with wider support that may help address the reasons behind food insecurity. Because people are more than their crisis. And support should be too.

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Immediate Support

Providing emergency food parcels, toiletries, household essentials and practical help to people facing crisis.

Relational Support

Creating a safe, compassionate environment where people feel heard, respected and supported through empathy, conversation and dignity.

Wider Support

Working alongside partners and services to help people access advice, financial inclusion support and opportunities that may strengthen stability over time.

People value the food they receive, but often the conversations matter just as much.

Impact Looks Different For Everyone

Some stories begin with food. Others begin with uncertainty, illness, loss, changing income or major life events. These moments reflect only a small number of the experiences shared within our client space.

Stories Behind the Numbers

Behind every figure reported by Perth and Kinross Foodbank is a person, a household and circumstances that deserve to be understood. These moments reflect some of the experiences we encounter within our client space.

Earlier this year, a young mother came to Perth and Kinross Foodbank during the final weeks of her pregnancy. Her circumstances had changed suddenly and she found herself navigating financial pressure while preparing for the arrival of her baby and caring for her children. Alongside emergency food support, we worked with referral partners to help her access crisis grants and wider financial guidance. A few months later, she returned. This time, not because she needed food. She came back to introduce us to her newborn daughter. Moments like these remind us that foodbank support is rarely only about food. Sometimes it is about creating space during difficult periods of life, ensuring people feel heard, supported and less alone.
A Moment of Support When It Mattered Most
A Moment of Support When It Mattered Most
Not everyone who comes to the foodbank is unemployed. Increasingly, we meet people who are working, but finding that wages, reduced hours, sick pay or unexpected costs no longer stretch far enough. One household came to us after a period of illness reduced earnings. Rent, utilities and essential bills continued, but food became the area they could no longer sustain. Their story was not about poor choices. It was about trying to keep going under sustained pressure.
Working, But Still Struggling
Working, But Still Struggling
For some people, food insecurity sits alongside recovery, poor health or significant life change. One individual accessing support was navigating recovery while trying to rebuild stability and reconnect with services. The food parcel mattered. But so did the conversation. Sometimes impact begins with practical support. Sometimes it begins with someone feeling able to speak.
Rebuilding Stability
Rebuilding Stability
Not every visit to the foodbank is about empty cupboards. Some involve emotional crisis, mental health challenges, safeguarding concerns, language barriers, migration journeys or recovery from addiction. Increasingly, our work requires time, listening and partnership working alongside practical support.
When Crisis Is More Than Financial
When Crisis Is More Than Financial
As our communities change, so too do the needs we see. Supporting refugees and people seeking sanctuary, adapting provision around faith requirements and ensuring culturally appropriate food choices are all important parts of delivering dignified support. Because feeling seen and respected matters.
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
As our communities change, so too do the needs we see. Supporting refugees and people seeking sanctuary, adapting provision around faith requirements and ensuring culturally appropriate food choices are all important parts of delivering dignified support. Because feeling seen and respected matters.
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
Sometimes impact looks like a parcel. Sometimes it looks like: A longer conversation. A safeguarding referral. Help navigating benefits. Finding an interpreter. Reassurance during a difficult week. Or simply someone saying:
"Thank you for listening."
The Quiet Human Work
The Quiet Human Work
Earlier this year, a young mother came to Perth and Kinross Foodbank during the final weeks of her pregnancy. Her circumstances had changed suddenly and she found herself navigating financial pressure while preparing for the arrival of her baby and caring for her children. Alongside emergency food support, we worked with referral partners to help her access crisis grants and wider financial guidance. A few months later, she returned. This time, not because she needed food. She came back to introduce us to her newborn daughter. Moments like these remind us that foodbank support is rarely only about food. Sometimes it is about creating space during difficult periods of life, ensuring people feel heard, supported and less alone.
A Moment of Support When It Mattered Most
A Moment of Support When It Mattered Most
Not everyone who comes to the foodbank is unemployed. Increasingly, we meet people who are working, but finding that wages, reduced hours, sick pay or unexpected costs no longer stretch far enough. One household came to us after a period of illness reduced earnings. Rent, utilities and essential bills continued, but food became the area they could no longer sustain. Their story was not about poor choices. It was about trying to keep going under sustained pressure.
Working, But Still Struggling
Working, But Still Struggling
For some people, food insecurity sits alongside recovery, poor health or significant life change. One individual accessing support was navigating recovery while trying to rebuild stability and reconnect with services. The food parcel mattered. But so did the conversation. Sometimes impact begins with practical support. Sometimes it begins with someone feeling able to speak.
Rebuilding Stability
Rebuilding Stability
Not every visit to the foodbank is about empty cupboards. Some involve emotional crisis, mental health challenges, safeguarding concerns, language barriers, migration journeys or recovery from addiction. Increasingly, our work requires time, listening and partnership working alongside practical support.
When Crisis Is More Than Financial
When Crisis Is More Than Financial
As our communities change, so too do the needs we see. Supporting refugees and people seeking sanctuary, adapting provision around faith requirements and ensuring culturally appropriate food choices are all important parts of delivering dignified support. Because feeling seen and respected matters.
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
As our communities change, so too do the needs we see. Supporting refugees and people seeking sanctuary, adapting provision around faith requirements and ensuring culturally appropriate food choices are all important parts of delivering dignified support. Because feeling seen and respected matters.
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
Dignity Means Meeting People Where They Are
Sometimes impact looks like a parcel. Sometimes it looks like: A longer conversation. A safeguarding referral. Help navigating benefits. Finding an interpreter. Reassurance during a difficult week. Or simply someone saying:
"Thank you for listening."
The Quiet Human Work
The Quiet Human Work

Food insecurity rarely presents as a standalone issue.
Foodbank work is becoming increasingly relational and case-based rather than purely transactional.

Together, We’re Changing Lives

50+

volunteers across the organization

68,746kg

Food and essentials donated in 2025

13 Years

of service from some founding volunteers

Powered by Community

Perth and Kinross Foodbank exists because people across our communities choose to stand alongside one another during difficult times. Behind every parcel distributed is a network of kindness, generosity and shared commitment.
Our Foodbank Family includes volunteers, churches, schools, businesses, sports clubs, community groups, donors, referral partners and local organisations who help make this work possible. In 2025 alone, local people and organisations donated more than 68,746kg of food and essentials, helping keep shelves stocked and ensuring support remained available for people facing hardship across Perth and Kinross. Alongside these donations, our volunteers contributed more than 6,395 hours of their time, creating welcoming spaces, preparing parcels, supporting clients and helping deliver compassionate support every day. Together, they help keep cupboards full, conversations open and dignity at the heart of everything we do.
Perth and Kinross Foodbank is not built by one team or one building. It is built by a community coming together.

Most Needed Items

Stronger Together

Lasting change happens through partnership. Food insecurity rarely exists in isolation and no single organisation can address it alone. Many of the people accessing Perth and Kinross Foodbank are also navigating challenges linked to income, debt, physical and mental health, housing, safeguarding, caring responsibilities and wider financial hardship. Working alongside partners allows us to respond more effectively, ensuring people can access support that goes beyond emergency food. We work collaboratively with local authorities, welfare services, healthcare professionals, schools, community organisations, faith groups, businesses and the wider voluntary sector to provide joined-up support for people across Perth and Kinross.
These relationships help us strengthen referral pathways, respond to emerging need, share learning and ensure people are connected to the right support at the right time. Because addressing hardship is not something any organisation can do alone.
It takes communities working together.

Community & Faith Partners

Churches, community groups, schools and local organisations.

Referral & Support Partners

Welfare teams, financial inclusion services, housing support, health professionals and community agencies.

Corporate & Business Supporters

Businesses and employers helping through donations, fundraising, volunteering and partnerships.

National Networks

Working as part of the wider Trussell community and contributing to learning and advocacy around poverty and food insecurity.

Our role is not to hold every answer. It is to listen, understand and help people access the support that may make a difference.

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Partnership turns individual acts of support into collective impact.

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Learning & Local Insight

Every day, people share parts of their lives with us. Through conversations, observations, data and lived experience, we gain insight into the pressures affecting individuals and families across Perth and Kinross. This learning helps us adapt our support, strengthen partnerships and better understand the changing realities of hardship within our communities.

Food Insecurity Is Becoming More Complex

While parcel numbers remain important, they only tell part of the story. Increasingly, we are seeing more complex circumstances requiring additional time, conversations and joined-up support.

Alongside financial hardship, people may also be navigating:

While parcel numbers remain important, they only tell part of the story. Increasingly, we are seeing more complex circumstances requiring addi

  • Physical and mental health challenges
  • Benefit changes or delays
  • Housing pressures
  • Safeguarding concerns
  • Addiction recovery
  • Language barriers
  • Migration and asylum processes
  • Emotional crisis and isolation

Food insecurity rarely presents as a standalone issue. tional time, conversations and joined-up support.

Foodbank Work Is Becoming More Relational

Our observations show that support is increasingly moving beyond the parcel. Time spent listening, understanding circumstances, making referrals and responding to wider needs is becoming a growing part of foodbank practice.
Examples have included safeguarding concerns, faith and culturally appropriate provision, interpretation support and extended wellbeing conversations. This reflects a shift from transactional support towards a more relational and person-centred approach.

What We Are Noticing

The Foodbank as an Early Indicator

Foodbanks often become one of the first places where changing pressures become visible.
Conversations, referral patterns and emerging needs help us understand what is happening across our communities and respond accordingly.
We continue to see:

Rising pressure from everyday costs Many households struggling to keep pace with food, utilities and essential living costs.

People often present with multiple challenges rather than one isolated issue.

Greater cultural diversity, wider dietary requirements and increasing need for tailored support.

Demand remains steady, even during periods that historically showed lower activity.

Learning matters because it shapes how we respond.
It influences how we design support, build partnerships, advocate for our communities and continue evolving to meet changing need.
By listening carefully and remaining curious, we hope to ensure people are not only supported today, but better understood tomorrow.
Behind every parcel is a person. Behind every person is a story. Behind every story is a community choosing to care.

Looking Forward

Looking Ahead

While emergency food remains essential, we know parcels alone will not end hardship. We remain committed to listening, learning and evolving alongside our communities. Our ambition is not only to respond to crisis, but to contribute to a future where no-one needs emergency food to survive.

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Every act of kindness helps keep our doors open. Whether you donate food, funds, time or skills, you are part of the Foodbank Family.