Growing into older age with HIV can be a stressful time, with not only ill-health but also poverty and attendant food worries to deal with. In our recent members' survey 30% told us that they don't have enough money to get by each month - this resulted in 10% telling us that they sometimes go hungry, and a further 23% saying that they worry that they can't get enough food each week. Poor nutrition can exacerbate ill-health; 28% told us their health had got a lot worse in the past 5 years.

We'll solve this problem by continuing to run our specialist Foodbank for older people with HIV - which distributes food supplied by our wonderful partners: Felix Project, City Harvest, and Sainsburys. Volunteers play a big role in this project - phoning members each week to check whether they're popping in for a parcel, making up food parcels on the day, or serving tables at our Foodbank Cafe. Our members told us that having a Foodbank where everyone has HIV