Charities welcome the news that the Government’s new HIV Action Plan [launched on 1 December 2025] includes funding formula milk and sterilising equipment for the infants of all women living with HIV, reducing the risk of vertical transmission. Vertical transmission of HIV refers to any infant acquiring HIV from their gestational parent; this can be...
The Annual Review summarises the work that the charity has undertaken throughout the past financial year, and also reflects on how far we have come since 1988. 2025 saw us step in to our 37th year of operation, and although we are disappointed that our services are still needed, we are committed to continuing...
26 HIV service providers have come together to call for the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft guidelines on the definition of biological sex in the Equality Act to be withdrawn. Read the full statement below.
The Annual Review summarises the work that the charity has undertaken throughout the past financial year, and also reflects on how far we have come since 1988. Our work would not have been possible this year, just like every other, if it weren’t for an incredible team of people. For 36 years we have...
The Annual Review summarises the work that the charity has undertaken throughout the past financial year, and also reflects on how far we have come since 1988. On this World AIDS Day and as we approach our 35th birthday on December 25th, it feels like an appropriate time to reflect on the work that has...
On Sunday 1st October we celebrated The Food Chain’s 35th birthday by taking a long walk along the Grand Union Canal. There was a 35km option, starting at Slough station, and a 10km option from Alperton. After a lovely set of warm-up stretches led by our volunteer yoga teacher Kirsten, the 35k-ers were off! Everyone...
The Food Chain was founded on Christmas Day 1988, when a group of friends got together to cook and deliver a Christmas Day meal to people living with HIV in London. It was a simple gesture of support and friendship during some of the worst years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Thirty five years later, The...
2023 has begun with some changes at The Food Chain as we face some unprecedented challenges. The price rises in food and energy have hit all the users of The Food Chain’s services hard over the past year, following on from the very difficult and unique circumstances of the pandemic. With grocery price inflation in the...
We are very pleased that our grocery service is still running, and that we have been able to reopen our kitchen for Eating Together meals. However, at The Food Chain we are facing a continued unprecedented demand for our services which means we have to be look closely at the situations of those who we...
