Get emergency foodEnd of year food bank stats
Food banks in the Trussell community distributed more than 2.6 million emergency food parcels in the past 12 months – equivalent to one parcel every 12 seconds.
Easing inflation hasn’t stopped appalling levels of severe hardship across the UK.
The number of parcels provided fell (by 12%) compared with 2024. This was largely due to easing inflation, helping some people who had been pushed into hardship during the cost of living crisis to recover. But while some people have been able to get back on their feet, too many others are experiencing entrenched levels of hardship.
I had to use the food bank when my husband left and I lost my job in quick succession. I was able to access food through the food bank but still felt like I was floundering. I managed to get a temporary job, then set up my own business, but I still needed to access community food support.
Factsheets and data
Read our factsheets for a detailed breakdown of what this year’s statistics are telling us at a UK level and the findings for Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
What do these stats show?
Every year we release statistics about the number of emergency food parcels food banks in our community have provided to people. The latest release covers 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. This is the first year that we have reported our official food bank statistics by calendar year, having previously reported these by financial year.
Our headline parcel numbers are a measure of volume rather than unique users. For example, if a family of three were referred to a food bank twice in one year, this would count as six parcels on our data collection system because it would reflect six instances of a supply going to someone in the household. However, if a family of three were only referred to a food bank once, this would count as three parcels.
Figures from Trussell cannot be used to fully describe the scale of food bank use across the UK, because our figures do not cover the hundreds of independent food aid providers and community groups also providing emergency food, which have increased in number through the pandemic. During 2025, food banks in the Trussell community distributed emergency food from more than 1,600 different locations.
Policy solutions
We need long-term solutions to ensure no one in the UK needs to turn to a food bank to get by. We're calling on the UK government to: