From Crisis to Resilience: The Power of Community Food Pantries

This online session looks at how food pantries can help move beyond emergency food aid towards building long-term community resilience. Drawing on the work of Your Local Pantry and our network of 120+ pantries across the UK, we’ll explore the value of pantries rooted in dignity, choice and participation, and the benefits of being part of a national network. The session will also reflect on wider conversations about shifting from crisis responses to resilience-building approaches, and how pantries can support people to better manage financial shocks. We’ll focus on the importance of member engagement, and how working with pantry members can help turn pantries into spaces where people become agents of change in their own communities.