Get emergency foodPeople’s Postcode Lottery
Find out how players of People’s Postcode Lottery have been supporting our work since 2020.
Up to the end of 2024, we’ve been awarded £3.73 million by the Postcode Care Trust – for which we’re incredibly grateful!
This funding has helped ensure food banks in our community can continue to support people facing hunger and hardship, while we work together to end the need for food banks for good.
Support at our busiest time of year
Last Christmas, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery, we were awarded an additional £500,000 on top of the £500,000 we received earlier in the year.
Winter is an especially difficult time for many people and with rising energy bills, it’s often the busiest time for food banks struggling to keep up with need. This extra donation made a huge difference to supporting people with a warm welcome, emergency food and access to advice so that fewer people will need a food bank again.
Millionaire Steet
As well as supporting Trussell centrally, players of People’s Postcode Lottery have also supported individual food banks in our community through their Millionaire Street Prize. So far 17 food banks have been awarded funding, totalling £550,000.
The power of partnership
The support of People’s Postcode Lottery goes beyond just funding. In the last few years, we have organised events and food banks visits with their team to share more about our mission and the role that food banks play in supporting people facing hanger and hardship. We have also travelled to their offices to share our latest campaigns and bring them along on our journey towards a future without the need for food banks.
Most recently, in April 2025, a group from the People’s Postcode Lottery team in Scotland volunteered at West Lothian Foodbank. They spent the day with staff and volunteers, helping to sort and pack stock in the warehouse.
We are deeply grateful for all the support we have received from players of People’s Postcode Lottery in the last five years. Food banks provide a lifeline for so many people facing hardship, but they shouldn’t have to exist in a just and compassionate society. And they weren’t set up to respond to this level of need – they’re stretched to breaking point trying to help increasing numbers of people on the lowest incomes. A future without the need for food banks is possible, but we can’t achieve it alone, that’s why the support of players of People’s Postcode Lottery is making a huge difference for us and our community of food banks. Together we can end hunger. Thank you!