Action Hunger Information

Action Hunger is committed to alleviating poverty and hardship amongst the homeless. We install vending machines that provide free food and clothing in key locations of cities across the United Kingdom - and beyond. The machines dispense water, fresh fruit, energy bars, crisps, chocolate, and sandwiches, as well as socks, sanitary towels, antibacterial lotion, toothbrush and toothpaste combination packs, and books. As a considerable amount of the produce we vend is received from food redistribution organisations, we aim to simultaneously address two major social and environmental issues - homelessness and food waste. Use of the machines is exclusively permitted to those in need, and items can only be vended with the use of a special key card, which our partner organisations in each locality are responsible for disseminating. In order to continue using the key cards, our users must check-in weekly at our partner organisations, as continued engagement with professionals and local support services is instrumental to breaking the cycle of homelessness. At the most elementary level, Action Hunger's machines provide access for the most vulnerable in our society to satiate the most basic of needs - that of sustenance. Sleeping rough is frightening, demoralising, and isolating. Homeless people are amongst the most vulnerable and socially excluded in our society.