Future Plans

Meeting complex needs

Our strategy for 2019-22 reflects the urgent need to respond in the best possible way to the ever increasing and complex issues faced by our services users in their daily lives.

We have listed five main areas to concentrate our services on throughout, listed below.

1. Maintain our core nutrition support services

• HIV specialist dietetic assessment and advice 
• Essential grocery deliveries
• Eating Together communal lunches
• Eating Positively cookery and nutrition classes

2. Develop ways of alleviating the hardship experienced by our service users

• We will signposting to other providers
• We will create partnerships that bring other providers in to The Food Chain
• We will facilitate accessing hardship related grants, funds and items 

3. Raise awareness of the complex and multiple needs of people who are not living well with HIV

• We will share our experience and demonstrating the impact of our support services at every opportunity.

4. Relocate to a new premises

• At the end of the lease period for Acorn House we will move to a new location.
  

5. Build the long-term financial sustainability of The Food Chain

• We are diversifying our income sources and providing cost effective services.