About Us
Background
In December 2012, as a response to the rising numbers of Food Banks in the City of Aberdeen, CFINE and others agreed there needed to be coordination and coherence to ensure the best service was provided to the most people in need as possible. A meeting was convened and it was agreed to form the Food Banks Partnership Aberdeen. It was also agreed that CFINE would act as lead partner.
The Partnership successfully applied to the Fairer Scotland (now Aberdeen) Fund to support the development of infrastructure behind the food banks and to ensure that every effort was made to realise quantities of produce from food producers and retailers and that this would be distributed fairly, effectively and efficiently.
Meeting Emergency Need - Building Resilience
As well as providing emergency food, all partners are committed to promoting employment, signposting to money advice, debt management and household budgeting services, and other sources of support to develop resilience and help people to move on and out of poverty, in particular their dependence on food banks.
Partnership Aims
The main aim of the Partnership is not to create dependency on food banks, but to move people – where appropriate – into employment with the help of a range of supporting services. A second aim is to work with food suppliers and retailers to reduce the amount going to landfill (reduction in carbon emissions) and to redistribute to those in most need. The Partnership has developed a Strategy, Memorandum of Understanding and an Information Sharing Protocol which partners signed on October 7th 2013.