Hear from the Alliance for Dignified Food Support about their new report highlighting the trauma faced by people in community food support.

Join us for a timely and thought-provoking workshop exploring the emotional and ethical impact of working in community food support. Based on the new report ‘Managing Hunger Trauma in Community Food Support: Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury, and Distress in Staff and Volunteers’, this session will shed light on the hidden toll of the UK’s growing food insecurity crisis.

Led by Carl Walker and Stef Lake from the Alliance for Dignified Food Support, the workshop will:

• Unpack the psychological and moral challenges faced by those on the frontlines of food aid
• Offer space for guided discussion and collective reflection
• Highlight the systemic failures driving burnout, distress, and moral conflict
• Share a bold new initiative focused on collective representation and action, developed with food activists, academics, food partnerships, and unions like the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union and the National Education Union

Together, we’ll explore:

• The reality of being an essential but unofficial part of the UK’s welfare safety net
• A proposed Charter of Rights for staff and volunteers
• A collective pledge to raise awareness and demand change
• Plans for a National Community Food Support Summit on systemic failure and food insecurity

Who should attend?This session is for anyone involved in community food support, including:✔️ Food partnerships✔️ Food poverty alliances✔️ Emergency food aid providers✔️ Volunteers and frontline staff✔️ Educators and school staff involved in food provision