Rhymney Valley Foodbank sees steep increase in parcels supplied for year 2024/25

On Wednesday 21 May 2025, we released our stats on the number of emergency food parcels that
Rhymney Valley Foodbank provided within our local community between April 2024 and March
2025.

The worrying new figures reveal that we have seen a 23% increase in the number of emergency food
parcels distributed compared to last year. We provided 6450 emergency food parcels to people who
couldn’t afford the essentials in the upper Rhymney area over the last twelve months – and 2158 of
these went to children.

In addition to this, food banks across the Trussell community collectively provided nearly 2.9 million
emergency food parcels to people experiencing hunger and hardship in the past year, with more
than 1 million of these going to children.

Food banks are a last resort for people who’ve been left isolated, facing hunger, and without
enough money to live on, and many are having to buy in stock as donations are not keeping up
with need.

That’s why we’re calling on the public to play their part and support Trussell and their local food
banks in any way possible, to help provide emergency food for people facing hardship.

Food banks offer hope, dignity, and relief to people facing hardship. Many food banks need vital
funds to ensure they can continue to provide services beyond distributing emergency food, such as
advice and support that unlocks money and services someone should be getting, as well as debt
management advice, and other services aimed at helping people out of financial hardship.

Your generous support makes a huge difference. You can help make sure food banks can continue to
provide warm, compassionate, practical support and advice in the year ahead by donating food or
funds to Trussell or your local food bank to help end hunger in the UK. As we navigate meeting the
need for our services, we would be incredibly grateful if you could please consider:

• Donating foods such as cereal, tinned meat or fish, tinned fruit, tinned vegetables, UHT milk pasta, tea & coffee or toiletries. Collection points are at St Peter’s Church Aberbargoed, White Rose Resource Centre New Tredegar and Tesco Ystrad Mynach.
• Making a financial donation either as a one off or regular gift, please see the donate tab to find out more.

Thank you for standing together with us. We recognise how challenging things are right now, which
is why we are so grateful for your support.

Together, we will be there for people who have been left without enough money to live on. And
together, we will make a transformational difference in the Upper Rhymney Valley so that no one
needs to use a foodbank to get by.

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