Boy who started food bank with £40 at age 9 now helps 5,000 people annually across six sites

At nine years old, Isaac Winfield saw people in his hometown of Redditch struggling to put food on the table and decided to do something about it. In November 2020, he used his own pocket money to buy £40 of groceries and set up a small pop-up food bank on his family’s driveway.

Six years later, Friends of Isaac’s Food Bank has grown into a six-site operation supporting about 5,000 people each year, according to Sounddelivery Media and the charity’s own website.Isaac did not begin with funding, staff or a formal plan. He was inspired by footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign against child food poverty and believed that nobody should go hungry simply because they were having a difficult time.

What began as one boy’s instinct to share food has become a community-run service that now reaches hundreds of families every week. Read more about it here:It started on a drivewayThe first version of Isaac’s food bank was remarkably simple.