Our food bank is located in the Wyndford area

The Wyndford area in Glasgow was built in the late 60s on the site of the old Maryhill barracks, and is a proud working class area housing long term tenants, asylum seekers, refugees and a number of single people, some of whom suffer from mental and physical ill health.

As is the case with many such developments, the Wyndford is amongst the top 5% of most socially deprived areas in Scotland.

Many of the Wyndford residents have young families and almost all are struggling to feed them.

We benefit hugely from the generosity of the Parish and congregation of St Gregory’s RC Church, where we are housed rent free.  The utility expenses of the food bank are met from the parish and we operate under the charitable umbrella of the Archdiocese of Glasgow being registered under their Scottish Charity Number.

Those who use our service:

All of our service users are struggling to feed themselves and /or their young families, even if they are in work. Families are by far the largest group of those we see at our door but in addition we are seeing growing numbers of people who have little or no recourse to public funds – asylum seekers, refugees and people sanctioned by the benefit agencies, as well as many single people, of all ages who may have physical or mental ill health, welfare or dependency issues.