The Food Chain

The Food Chain is a United Kingdom-based charity working to provide food and nutritional services to people living with HIV and related illness. Formed on Christmas Day 1988, its stated aim is "to ensure that those living with HIV... have access to good nutrition to regain their health and stay well". ^[1]

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The charity provides nutrition services including home-delivered meals, emergency groceries and nutrition advice to men, women and children who are chronically sick as a result of HIV-related illness. Its main Sunday hot and cold meal service is delivered from six borrowed kitchens across London - Hammersmith, Tooting, Bermondsey, Kentish Town, Highbury and Stepney Green - catering for housebound Londonders living with HIV and other associated illnesses. The charity is almost entirely sustained by volunteers and has an office staffed by six people in Islington.

In 2005, The Food Chain won the Queen's Award for Volunteer Organisation of the Year and funding was sourced from the Big Lottery for a Chief Executive to develop The Food Chain over the next few years ^[2]. The Food Chain also won The Guardian Charity of the Year award in 2005^[3], and the National Lottery 'Inspiration' award in 2006 ^[4].

• The Food Chain website - http://www.foodchain.org.uk

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