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The NFS started with a belief that there should be a public eating space on every street and in every community of the country.

NFS is a network of community food justice projects stretching from Glasgow down to Falmouth. It was founded in 2018, and we currently have 11 branches, most of those joining in late 2019 and early 2020.

Imagine a world without hunger or social isolation
Imagine a social eating space in every street and high-rise made by people from all backgrounds, created in common. Places free at the point of entry, use and delivery. Social equality integrated into the very fabric of urban life and with people able to live happily in their city and community. Around the dinner table barriers are broken down and real change is made, these spaces should be at the heart of every city.

"Eating together is probably the most important way we build friendships. So a National Food Service would do more for our collective happiness and wellbeing, not to mention our health, than anything else we might think of doing." - Robin Dunbar, Evolutionary Psychologist at the University of Oxford. Discoverer of the Dunbar number.

Real change
The National Food Service seeks to reach new standards of social equality through building on the initiatives that exist in our communities, evolving, scaling and adding to them to build a new National Food Service. We want to ensure a robust system for food security exists in emergency and non-emergency scenarios alike.  The network first started in 2018 in the face of a climate emergency declaration and rising food bank usage despite modern farming methods providing an abundance. An inability to tackle food insecurity pre-crisis indicated an inability to feed the population during crisis.

Handling crisis properly.
During the UK Lockdowns our branches supported one another, sharing their resources in order to quickly change our model to emergency provision.

We delivered over 100,000 meals between March and August 2020.

Our COVID-19 Support Resources are available here.

Our demands for support during COVID-19 are available here.

A new public service.
When public services are being actively dismantled can we rise against adversity and make an entirely new public service for our grandchildren to inherit?

We believe so. If you are in an existing organisation that is tackling the issue of food insecurity we want you to join and help build the movement.

Who can join?
We are an evolving solidarity network across the country among organisations, communities and individuals who tackle issues such as food waste, food poverty or social isolation.

Both individuals and communities who share the dream of finally solving these problems should Join Today 

Where did it begin?
The National Food Service campaign started in Sheffield in the Foodhall Project in 2018, the Real Junk Food Project network and in collaboration with campaigners in Nottingham’s Super Kitchen network, together with numerous projects who share a solidarity of cause. The founding initiatives are from northern cities facing significant cuts in welfare services with active communities.