Southend Foodbank

Name

Southend Foodbank

Legal name

Southend Foodbank

Website

https://southend.foodbank.org.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Food Assistance / Charitable Food Bank Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (624210), Community Food Services (62421), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Assistance & Food Banks (BPAGAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Food Assistance & Nutrition Relief (Emergency Feeding) (BPAGAAAD), Emergency Food Assistance & Nutrition Response (BPADADAE)

Keywords

• Emergency food assistance
• Food parcel distribution
• Charitable foodbank services
• Community crisis support
• Referral-based food aid

Headquarters

HQ city

Southend-on-Sea

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations (Food): Receives food donations from the public through supermarket collection points, seasonal collections, and online shopping registries. Food is then distributed to individuals and families in crisis.
2. Monetary Donations: Receives money donations through various channels including PayPal and other payment platforms. Donations support operational costs and food procurement.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Southend Foodbank provides free emergency food parcels to individuals and families experiencing financial hardship in the Southend-on-Sea area. Service is delivered via a referral partner network, with recipients referred by authorised local agencies. The charity also collects food and monetary donations and offers volunteer opportunities to sustain operations.

Product overview

Southend Foodbank is a registered charity (no. 1163160) in England & Wales that provides emergency food parcels and practical support to people in difficult circumstances. The organization offers emergency food distribution, accepts food and monetary donations, and facilitates volunteering opportunities. Key services include emergency food parcels, food donation collection points, money donations via PayPal, and volunteer programs. The organization also provides advice-related services including energy bill support, benefits calculators, and grants search tools through their parent Trussell organization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency Food Parcels Free emergency food parcels provided to individuals and families in crisis in the Southend-on-Sea area, accessed via referral from authorised local partner organisations.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• TrussellcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the Trussell network, a national UK food bank organization. The network provides operational support, resources, and shared best practices to affiliated food banks across the UK.
• Referral PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNetwork of local organizations and agencies that refer individuals and families in crisis to receive emergency food support from the food bank.

Scale indicators2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• FareShare: National UK charity redistributing surplus food to a network of frontline charities including food banks; comparable in operating model (donations-in, food-out to people in need) but operates at much larger scale and one step upstream.
• The Trussell Trust: The national network operator of which Southend Foodbank is an affiliate; it provides the shared CMS, branding, and operational framework, making it the closest broad incumbent in the UK emergency food space.
• Salvation Army UK Foodbank Network: Operates a parallel national food bank and emergency aid network across the UK with comparable referral-based service models and similar donation-funded operations, making it a broad incumbent peer.

Emerging players

• Magic Breakfast: UK charity addressing food poverty by providing breakfasts to children in schools; comparable as a donation-funded food assistance charity targeting vulnerable UK populations, though with a narrower child-focused remit.
• The Felix Project: London-based food redistribution charity providing surplus food to frontline organisations including food banks; overlapping mission and food-supply model, though regionally concentrated in London.
• City Harvest London: London-focused food rescue and redistribution charity; comparable as a donor-funded food redistribution organization serving vulnerable populations, though operating at a smaller regional scale.
• FoodCycle: UK charity combining surplus food with volunteers to serve community meals; comparable in mission and volunteer-driven model, but differs in delivering prepared meals rather than parcels.

Direct peers

• Stockport Foodbank: Another Trussell-affiliated UK food bank operating under the same national framework with a referral-based model serving a defined locality; the closest direct comparable peer in structure and scale.
• Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN): Umbrella coalition of independent (non-Trussell) food banks across the UK; directly comparable as an alternative affiliation model for community food banks of Southend Foodbank's size and operating approach.
• Norfolk Foodbank: Trussell-affiliated regional food bank serving a defined UK county with the same referral-based parcel distribution model; highly comparable operating footprint and scale to Southend Foodbank.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/southend-foodbank

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

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