10 December 2025
The Big Food Project Urgently Needs Your Support
Hunger isn’t just about unemployment, one in five people using food banks are from working households. Almost a third of those in insecure work, such as zero-hours or agency contracts, have had to rely on food banks (Source: Trussell Trust).
Employment no longer guarantees food on the table.
Locally, Blackpool faces some of the highest levels of deprivation in the country. Around one in four residents are now in food-insecure households, up from about one in eight in 2019. The council’s own Financial Inclusion Strategy reports 16.8% of households experiencing food insecurity and 8.4% experiencing hunger (Source: Blackpool Council).
At the same time, over 10,000 children in Blackpool are living in low-income families, and approximately 33% of children are in relative poverty (Source: Lancashire County Council – Blackpool Local Profile). Many of these children are in working families on low or unstable incomes who are being pushed to seek help from charities and food support projects.
Why Your Support Matters
Rising costs and demand mean that The Big Food Project urgently needs business support to keep their trucks on the road, their warehouse open, and food reaching those who need it most.
That’s why they are launching 26 for ’26, a call for local businesses to stand with them and secure the future of food support across the Fylde Coast.
Without the Big Food Project
- 885,962 meals a year lost – that’s 17,600 meals every single week that currently reach Blackpool residents.
- 5,245 emergency crisis parcels gone – the equivalent of 135,333 meals (2,706 per week) for people in immediate crisis.
- 90 frontline projects a week (out of a 125-strong network) would see their food supply collapse or be drastically cut.
- In a partner survey, 50% said they would be unable to continue their service without The Big Food Project, and a further 44% would have to scale back.
- 372 tonnes of food a year would no longer be rescued – food currently diverted from waste to plates in Blackpool.
- Around 700 tonnes of CO₂e emissions avoided each year would be lost – roughly the same as taking 154 cars off the road for a year.
What can you do?
To find out more how you can help, please visit: 26 for 26 – The Big Food Project or email info@thebigfoodproject.co.uk
