About Trussell Trust

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion  
At the Trussell Trust our values of dignity, compassion, community and justice are at the core of who we are and how we work. Our vision is a UK without the need for food banks – to genuinely address the root causes of poverty, we must ensure people with lived experiences of poverty shape our work, and we must do our part in dismantling the structural discrimination that cuts across our society and locks people in poverty. Equity, diversity and inclusion is central to our work to achieving our vision of a UK without the need for food banks.

What we have been doing so farWe must be honest. We haven’t been a leader in diversity and inclusion. We’re at the beginning of a longer-term process and we know we have much more work to do. This can’t be about tokenism or lofty words – we need to work alongside communities and people with experience of poverty to ensure all of this work is meaningful, clear and adopted by everyone.We know many people who need food banks are there because of barriers encountered due to things like race, gender or disability. Our State of Hunger research shows us Black people are over-represented among people who need food banks compared to the demographics of the UK working age population. 1 in 6 people at food banks either have a physical disability or live with someone who does, and 1 in 10 people needing food banks have a reported learning disability or live with someone who does.We also know people aren’t one thing. No one is solely their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability. These things come together and intersect, and our society has – often invisible – structures which limit people in different ways depending on how these characteristics come together.This isn’t right.And it’s why meaningful diversity and inclusion work is core to our mission of ending the need for food banks.

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