Different types of food support are available for anyone in Leeds experiencing difficulties in accessing food. Personal circumstances will determine the type of help that can be received.
If you are receiving support from a social worker, support worker or other advice agency, they may also be able to refer you for help with food and/or food vouchers.
Leeds Food Aid Network
The Leeds Food Aid Network brings together food provision services in the city including drop-ins, soup kitchens, outreaches, foodbanks, pay as you feel cafes and other food enterprises such as food pantries.
On the Leeds Food Aid Network website, you can find details of food aid providers operating in the city, including community kitchens and food banks as well as homeless and street outreach provisions.
Find details of food aid providers operating in the city
Leeds Food Aid Map
You can also use the Leeds Food Aid Map to find food aid providers operating in the city, including location, opening hours, contact information and referral details (if required).
Find Food Aid Provision in Leeds.
Other help with food
Healthy Holidays
Healthy Holidays Leeds provides free holiday clubs for children and young people eligible for free school meals during Easter, Summer and the Christmas holidays.
The scheme offers physical and enriching activities together with a healthy meal and promotes nutritional education and healthy lifestyle information as well as offering opportunities to signpost families to additional sources of support.
Find out more about Healthy Holidays Leeds.
Healthy Start scheme
Provides eligible pregnant women and families with children aged under 4 years old with vouchers for milk, fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables, fresh, dried, and tinned pulses, and infant formula milk. Free vitamins are also available.
Find out more and apply.
