LONDON FOOD COALITION 

Every day across London, food moves quietly from abundance to access — from farms, wholesalers, and grocery stores to community centres, shelters, and meal programs. Behind that movement are not just trucks and schedules, but people. Volunteers are the heartbeat of the London Food Coalition (LFC), transforming good food that might have gone unseen into nourishment, connection, and dignity. The Power of People At LFC, our mission — collect, connect, nourish  — depends on hundr

How the London Food Coalition is helping transform short-term relief into long-term resilience Walk into almost any community agency in London, and you’ll find more than a food shelf. You’ll find conversations, care, and connection — people helping people find their footing. You’ll find volunteers serving meals with dignity, staff offering counselling or housing support, and neighbours learning that they’re not alone. For many, that first visit for food opens the door to som

How the London Food Coalition turns generosity into nourishment, every single day Most people never see it happen — the quiet choreography that keeps good food moving through our city. Every morning, before most of London has poured its first coffee, a single white refrigerated truck pulls out from the London Food Coalition’s Food Hub. It makes its rounds to grocery stores and distributors, collecting fresh produce, dairy, meat, and prepared foods that might otherwise go to w

How Collective Effort Turns Good Food into Shared Good Every day, thousands of pounds of good food move quietly through our city — from grocery stores and distributors, through warehouses and kitchens, into the hands and homes of neighbours. Much of it might have once been overlooked or discarded. But in the right hands, with the right relationships, that same food becomes something extraordinary: abundance. At the London Food Coalition (LFC), abundance isn’t just a word. It’

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