Alliance for Dignified Food Support: Collective Action Workshop
Join our free online workshops to help shape collective action for dignity in community food support. Volunteers & staff welcome!
Date and time
Location
Online
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Highlights
- 1 hour, 30 minutes
- Online
About this event
This autumn, the Alliance for Dignified Food Support is hosting a series of participatory workshops to bring together staff and volunteers from across the community food sector.
These sessions are a space to share experiences, voice challenges and generate ideas for a national piece of collective action that shines a light on the pressures facing those holding up our broken safety net.
Together, we’ll explore:
- The emotional and practical toll of working or volunteering in food support
- The boundaries between community care and statutory responsibility
- The potential for days of action, national summits, campaigns, and collective representation
Whether you're running a food bank, coordinating a pantry, volunteering at a meal project or delivering surplus food, this is a space to make your voice heard, shape our shared demands and help build a movement for dignity, equity & justice in community food support... for everyone.
Let’s organise together.
Frequently asked questions
These sessions are open to anyone who works or volunteers in community food support, whether you’re part of a food bank, pantry, meal project, surplus food distributor or another form of charitable food aid.
We’ll be exploring the challenges faced by people delivering food support, including burnout, emotional strain, moral injury, and the lack of systemic support. Together, we’ll generate ideas for collective action, including policy asks, campaign plans, and a potential Charter of Volunteer Rights.
Each session will be hosted by two members of the Alliance for Dignified Food Support. This includes Carl Walker, whose research into Managing Hunger Trauma and Moral Injury helped launch this national movement. Other participants will be sector peers with an understanding of the issues.
All workshops are online and completely free to attend. You’ll receive a Zoom link after signing up.
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