A Taste for Change: How to Build a Food Bank Free Future

Food banks are an increasingly normal part of life in the UK, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Tackling themes including rising living costs, employment, and the relationship between poverty and mental and physical health, A Taste for Change makes the case for a food bank free future and sets out what it will take to get there.

Drawing on personal stories and statistical data from across and beyond Trussell's community of food banks, it asks what it would look like to act decisively on a belief that most of us hold: namely, that everyone matters.

Heather Buckingham is Social Change Advisor at Trussell, a charity whose goal is to end hunger in the UK. She was previously Director of Policy and Research at Church Urban Fund and has held Research Fellow posts at the University of Birmingham and the University of Southampton, exploring civil society responses to social issues.

Heather is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School and a Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness. She combines her professional expertise with insights from community life in contrasting parts of the UK, including Aston, Birmingham, where she was a volunteer and trustee at her local food bank.