Get emergency foodShare your story
By sharing your story, you can help us push for long-term change.
We stand alongside people struggling to afford the essentials to help build a future where everyone has enough money to live on.
We do this through campaigning, media engagements, social media and much more. But we cannot do this alone. To achieve this, we urgently need people with experience of needing to use a food bank to share their stories.
Why share your story?
There is nothing more powerful than hearing from someone about the reality they have faced, and we know that hearing about your experience will encourage more people to get involved in pushing for long-term change.
If you have needed support from a food bank or have experience of living on a low income and would like to make an impact by talking about it publicly, we’d like to offer you support and opportunities to do that.
If you would like to learn more about sharing your story with us, please email story@trussell.org.uk with your phone number and a good time for us to call you back, or drop us a line on 01722 580306.
Collaborating with the Trussell stories team has been an uplifting and worthwhile experience. Even though I'm sharing a difficult period in my life, it's empowering knowing I am helping to change the system and challenging perceptions around food bank need - which were perceptions I used to hold myself. The team’s understanding and support allowed me to speak openly about a low point in my life and find real empowerment. Their non-judgmental support helped me reclaim my voice and reminded me how powerful sharing our stories can be.
How will my story be shared?
Sharing your experiences with the Trussell stories team will introduce you to opportunities such as media engagements, supporting fundraising campaigns, political campaigning and so much more.
You will help to highlight the issues driving people to food banks and to push for change so that in the future we can live in a UK without the need for food banks.
We work to end the need for food banks in the UK, and we’d like to work with you to help make this happen.
If you want to make a positive change today, then contact the email below and we will arrange a good time to call and speak to you.
You don’t need any experience, you just need your story.
How sharing your story helps
When you share your story, you'll have opportunities to be a part of changing how the public think about food banks, including:
- Fundraising to help us continue our work;
- Campaigning to make real and positive change;
- Media to help change how the public see food banks and the people who use them, and
- Influencing how we work, and the changes we want to make.
If you would like to learn more about sharing your story with us, please email story@trussell.org.uk with your phone number and a good time for us to call you back, or drop us a line on 01722 580306.
We will never share your details with anyone without your permission.