The City Welfare

Impact

What consistent, community led work looks like.

Six years of frontline service, measured in hampers delivered, families visited and lives steadied.

25,000+
individuals supported since 2020
500+
families supported this year
20
London boroughs served
6
years of frontline service

Why this work matters

London's food crisis, in numbers.

+440%
rise in food bank demand since 2019
+93%
increase in child poverty in London
1 in 3
women led households in food insecurity
620,000+
Londoners at food banks in 2023

Source: Trussell Trust and public poverty data.

On the ground

Deliveries, workshops, and everyday moments.

Two volunteers handing a bag of groceries to a resident on a London street at nightVolunteers pushing supermarket trolleys stacked with food for community deliveriesVolunteers at a doorstep with a green crate of food, toiletries and household essentialsA masked volunteer delivering a wrapped gift hamper to a resident at their front doorA family greeting a City Welfare volunteer at their door during a home deliveryCity Welfare volunteers in black uniforms wearing green branded lanyardsA corporate volunteering group holding branded City Welfare tote bags after a packing session

As featured in

BBC
BBC Radio 1Xtra
Asian Network
Southwark News