# Rausings launch £3.5mn fund to support food banks

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/11/17/rausings-launch-3-5mn-fund-to-support-food-banks/
- Published: 2022-11-17T10:35:44+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust has launched a £3.5million to help food banks
across the UK with the cost of living crisis.**

The new [FoodBank Fund](https://www.juliahansrausingtrust.org/foodbank-fund/) is
part of a larger £10 million grants programme from the Trust to support charities
and food banks across the UK in tackling the growing food poverty crisis, including
£3.5 million to the Trussell Trust and £1.7 million to FareShare.

The Fund is open to all food banks across the UK. Applications opened yesterday 
and will close on 6 December with funding to be made available before the deadline
date, with grants starting from £500. The Fund hopes to have distributed all funds
to successful applicants before Christmas.

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Julia and Hans Rausing said:

> “Food banks are facing an unprecedented crisis with demand reaching record levels.
> For the first time, they are giving away more food than they are receiving through
> donations which shows the gravity of the situation. Furthermore, in many cases,
> they are seeing significant increases in running costs compared to last year.
>  
> “For this reason we are donating a total of £10 million to food charities of which
> £3.5 million is via an emergency open application ‘Foodbank Fund’ to help as many
> food banks as possible support their local communities.”

In addition to the open application and Trussell Trust grants, Julia and Hans Rausing
are supporting the following food related charities:

 * **FareShare: **Having previously worked with FareShare and their food distribution
   network, Julia and Hans Rausing are donating £1.7 million to develop new food
   processing and freezing technologies to enable surplus fresh food to be stored
   instead of wasted.
 * **FoodCycle:** Julia and Hans Rausing are donating £325,000 to FoodCycle to enable
   the charity to keep open its welcoming spaces as part of its ‘meet, eat and have
   conversations’ programme across London & the South East and the West Midlands.
 * **Feeding Britain: **£200,000 will go towards providing urgent support to 20 
   of its affordable food clubs and pantries across the UK.

Julia and Hans Rausing are donating a further £775,000 to local food charities in
London, Gloucestershire and East Cheshire where they have local connections.

Lindsay Boswell, CEO at FareShare said: 

> “The cost of living crisis has seen demand for our food skyrocket, at a time when
> millions of people are being forced into food poverty. For many, the soaring cost
> of living is a bigger financial crisis than the pandemic. We’re incredibly grateful
> for the generosity of Julia and Hans Rausing, whose donation will make a huge 
> impact on getting more good-to-eat surplus food to people who need it, rather 
> than letting in go to waste.”