Help people in your county find food when they need it most
Your business can fund the free food bank directory for a whole county for twelve months. From £500 a year. One business per county.
2,332 food banks listed
98,500 people have used the site to find one since June 2024
Always free for anyone who needs it
One supporter per county
Independent and UK-focused. foodbanks.co.uk is a directory of food banks, pantries and community larders across the United Kingdom. We are not a food bank ourselves, we do not give food or advice directly, and we are not a charity. County supporters are how the directory gets funded.
Food banks provide the food. We help people find it.
That second part sounds small until it goes wrong. A family walks to a building that closed six months ago. Somebody turns up on a Tuesday to a service that moved to Thursdays. Someone gives up because the first three results they found were out of date. Keeping that from happening is a real job, and it is the job your business would be paying for.
What your support pays for
Somebody has to ring round and ask whether the Tuesday session still runs, whether they still need a voucher, whether they have moved to the church hall. Addresses change. Opening times change. Referral rules change. Phone numbers stop working.
That is the work. It is not glamorous and nobody sees it, which is exactly why it does not get funded. Your money pays for the checking, the corrections, the hosting and the answering of emails when a food bank changes its hours.
Food banks are listed here for free and always will be. So are the people who need them.
What your business gets
Acknowledged across the whole county
The county page, every town and city page beneath it, and every food bank listing inside it. One business, named on all of them, for twelve months.
Acknowledged, not advertised
Your logo is not an advert aimed at people who have run out of money. It is a line saying this county's listings are checked and kept accurate because a local business pays for that work. Anyone curious can click through and read about you. Nobody is sold anything, ever.
Exclusive for twelve months
One business per county. While you hold it, no competitor can appear beside you at any price.
Your own supporter page
Your logo, your story, what you do, and a link to your website. Written by you, hosted by us. See an example supporter page
A supporter badge for your own site
Put it on your homepage or in your footer. Customers, staff and anyone assessing you can click it and check it in seconds.
An annual summary of your county
A written report at the end of the year. See below for what is in it.
Two different ways to help
You should do both if you can, honestly. They do different jobs.
Giving to a food bank buys food and pays the people handing it out. That matters more than anything on this page and nothing here competes with it.
What a donation does not do is help somebody find the food bank in the first place, or make sure the opening times they read are the ones actually in force. That is the gap we fill.
There is also a practical difference. A donation is a donation. Supporting a county is a commercial arrangement, with a written agreement and a proper business invoice behind it.
What it costs
The price follows the size of the county and nothing else. A bigger county means more food banks, more pages and more work keeping it all correct. Every supporter gets exactly the same things at every price.
| County | A year |
|---|---|
| London | £5,000 |
| Greater Manchester, West Midlands | £2,500 |
| Large counties, for example Kent, Essex, Hampshire, Surrey | £1,500 |
| Mid sized counties | £1,000 |
| Smaller counties | £500 |
| Our eight smallest counties, sold together as one | £500 |
Prices are the full amount payable. We are not VAT registered, so no VAT is added and there is no VAT line on your invoice.
Payment is usually by card. You get a proper business invoice straight away.
Three years costs ten per cent less and fixes your price for the whole term. Email info@foodbanks.co.uk.
Why we need your support
A few years ago someone in my family needed a food bank and had no idea where to start. Not which one to go to. Not what to bring. Not whether they would be turned away for not having a voucher. There was information out there, and half of it was wrong, with no way to tell which half.
So I built the directory I wished had been there that week. Today that is 2,332 food banks, with more added every day, and every one of them checked and kept current. Always free for food banks to be included in it, and free for anyone who needs it. That will never change.
Since it launched in June 2024, just over 98,500 people (as of August 2026) have used it to find their local food bank so they could feed themselves and their families.
Until now I have paid for all of it myself. That was manageable when it was a few hundred listings and nobody had heard of it. Keeping nearly 2,400 listings accurate takes real time and real money every single day, so I have started asking businesses to help support it instead. One per county, a year at a time.
Thank you
Lee
How this works, and what it does not buy
We are a business, not a charity. We do not take donations, we do not fundraise and we hold no charitable status. County supporters are how the site gets paid for. You get a written agreement and a proper business invoice.
Food banks never pay. Being listed here is free and always will be.
Supporters have no influence over anything we publish. Not which food banks appear, not how they are described, not the order anything sits in, not a word of what we write. None at all.
Any food bank can opt out. If a food bank would rather no supporter line appeared on its own listing, we take it off that listing the same day, without asking why.
We do not sell to people looking for emergency food. No paywall, no sign up, no charge, nothing pushed at anybody. Ever.
Some businesses we cannot accept. Payday and high cost lenders, gambling and betting, fee charging debt collection and debt management, rent to own, alcohol and tobacco. Anything that would make a person in trouble feel worse for seeing it. If we cannot accept you, you get every penny back.
What you get at the end of the year
Every supporter gets a written summary of their county at the end of their twelve months. It is written in plain language and in a form you can paste straight into your own reporting. Here is what one looks like.
Example: Kent supporter summary, 2027
- Twelve months supported, January to December 2027
- 69 food bank listings maintained across Kent
- 100 Kent pages kept live and checked
- Funded by [your business name]
An illustration only. The figures shown in brackets are filled in with your county's real numbers.
Questions
Why would I do this instead of giving to a food bank?
Do both if you can. A donation buys food. This helps people find it. See “Two different ways to help” above.
What will our page actually look like?
Have a look at an example supporter page. Yours would be built from what you send us, and nothing goes live until you are happy with it.
Can a food bank say no to supporter acknowledgements?
Yes, immediately and without explanation. We take it off that listing the same day. They come first, always.
Can we support more than one county?
Yes. Several counties, a whole region, or every county you operate in. Email info@foodbanks.co.uk with the ones you want and we will price them together.
Can I cancel?
Changed your mind? Tell us within fourteen days and we will refund you in full. After that you can cancel at any time, and your support runs to the end of the period you have paid for.
What if our county has already gone?
Tell us and we will let you know when it comes up for renewal. A neighbouring county may be free now, and the people it helps are just as real.