Helping those most affected by poverty in Britain today

We give out small donations for food and fuel, giving needy folk just a little helping hand when they need it most, without making them feel humiliated or making them wait in line. Sometimes all that is needed is £20 to top up the electricity meter, or some groceries to last them out until their next salary or benefits payment. Our most requested need for help is for food, as recipients are often found to be missing meals to feed their children, and haven’t had a square meal themselves in days.  

We are a registered charity, and since our inception in 2013 we have raised and distributed over £730,000 to people in need, be it fuel poverty, food poverty or any other kind of poverty. We aim to get that figure to £1 million by 2027.

Although we hand out cash, the Biscuit Fund is primarily an exercise in hope. Most of our members have experience of poverty themselves and know how demoralising and frankly depressing poverty can be, and how a small helping hand can restore faith in humanity. Our small grants give needy folk that little helping hand when they need it most.

This is what we do. We love it. We believe in it. We believe in giving people just a tiny bit of hope.

We do not accept direct applications for help.

This is because we never want to set out ‘criteria’ for those in need, and we want to focus our limited time and funds on helping as many people as we can, as quickly as we can.

By working with our trusted referring organisations, we can see the struggles that people face, and can see the danger signs when someone is in real trouble.

If we accepted direct applications we would have mountains of paperwork to process. We don’t like paperwork, and we don’t like to demoralise people by asking them to ‘prove’ their need. Read more about us here or here.