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You and Yours: Gap Finders - Mark Game

28/07/2022

Gap Finders - Mark Game

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gap Finders - Mark Game

How Mark Game, founder of The Bread and Butter Thing, found a gap in the market.

How Mark Game, founder of the charity The Bread and Butter Thing found a gap in the market providing different types of support to low income areas struggling with food poverty.

Today's guest is gap finder Mark Game, founder of the charity, The Bread And Butter Thing.

The Bread and Butter thing fills the gap between food banks and supermarkets. They are a low-cost food club that regularly redistributes 250,000 meals a week to people on low incomes. Unlike food banks it is not free but it's open to everyone - you don't need to be referred. Members pay £7.50 and in return they get three bags of food. 

They also work with local and national partners to provide support for local communities. This includes offering advice and practical solutions for dealing with debt, managing utilities, accessing mental health support and help with housing.

It was started in 2016 and they work in around 70 community locations across the north of England and have over 500 volunteers working with them each week.

With the cost of living crisis pushing up everything from utilities, petrol to food prices, Mark talks to us about how he filled a gap in the market and why he wants to expand the charity further, providing support across the UK at a time that more and more people are being pushed into food poverty.

Producer:
Jay Unger
Presenter:
Peter White

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