Wraparound Support and Partnership Working
When people need to access affordable food, they may also need support with other areas, such as advice with benefits, debt and credit or housing. Co-locating advice workers within food projects can ensure that members receive advice and wraparound support and don't fall through the cracks when being signposted.
Feeding Britain works with partners to embed wraparound support within Affordable Food Clubs, and may have funding and resources to support your work. Contact info@feedingbritain.org to find out more.
Below are some resources that you may find useful when planning or offering wraparound support within a food project. The resources on this site have been shared in good faith by projects and partners within the Feeding Britain network, to help save time and share practice.
All example documents will need to be reviewed and amended for your project before being used.
Co-locating expert advice and affordable food provision
Pathways from Poverty: The co-location of support services (April 2022).docxFeeding Britain guide: Co-locating advice services within food projects (April 2022)
Offering expert advice and wraparound services alongside affordable food (April 2023)
Pathways-From-Poverty-Final-Evaluation-Report-June-2021.pdfPathways from Poverty evaluation: Co-locating expert advisors within food settings (June 2021)
Beyond-the-Food-Bank-toolkit.pdfSufra NW's guide to setting up a project which co-locates advice workers, health activites, a community cafe and an Affordable Food Club
Working with Housing Associations
Feeding Britain Webinar: The Role of Housing Associations (Dec 2023)
Good Food Scotland - Working with housing associations.pdfGood Food Scotland - Working with housing associations (Jan 2024)
Case studies: The role of housing associations in preventing hunger (Jan 2024).pdfCase studies: The role of housing associations in preventing hunger (Jan 2024)
Working with Credit Union services
Healthy Start
Healthy Start is a UK Government scheme which provides an allowance for pregnant women and families with young children on low incomes. They are entitled to a minimum of £4.25 per week on a prepaid card to purchase healthy items like milk, fruit, veg and pulses. This increases to 8.50 per week for children from birth to 1 year old. Find out more here - https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/. It also entitles families to free vitamins.
Feeding Britain encourages Affordable Food Clubs to accept Healthy Start cards and to promote the scheme. If you would like to accept Healthy Start in your project but do not currently have a card reader, Feeding Britain may be able to offer funding to cover this.
Sharing local approaches to increasing take-up of Healthy Start (July 2024)
NHS HEALTHY START EFP TOOLKIT.pdfEastbourne Healthy Start toolkit
Healthy start (1).pdfEastbourne Healthy Start poster
Feeding Liverpool Healthy Start video (Feb 2024)
Financial support
The Money and Pensions Service Money Guiders Programme (May 2024)
Supporting older people
Supporting Older People at Risk of Poverty or Malnutrition (Sept 2023)
Independent Age offer free training courses to share knowledge and upskill frontline staff who support older people in their communities.
Digital Inclusion
National Databank to access free SIM cards
Cooking and growing activities
Cooking activities alongside food provision (Oct 2022)
Factsheets-cookery-groups-Final.pdfTeignbridge CVS - Community cookery sessions factsheet
Growing activities alongside food provision (Oct 2022)
Other resources
Emergency Mental Health contact telephone numbers and services.docxFeeding Devon - Example emergency mental health contact details
