The Trussell Trust has restructured its operations and spun out its international arm into a separate charity, the charity confirmed this week.
The food bank charity said it had changed its structure to help its area managers to support clusters of local food banks, which it hopes will have more opportunities to share resources and ideas as a result.
The area manager role was previously more focused on developing new food banks.
The charity said that it was expanding its “More than Food” projects, which address the underlying causes of hunger and try to prevent people having to return.
It has also formally separated from the Foundation for Social Change and Inclusion, which is based in Bulgaria – the charity where the Trussell Trust started its work in 1997.
The charity said it had made positions redundant as part of the restructure but had created more roles than it had lost. It said it had offered staff the opportunity to apply for new positions, and was now recruiting externally to fill more positions.
“As a charity that has grown rapidly in the last five years, we wanted to assess whether the structure we had grown into was the most suitable way to support our foodbank network,” said David McAuley, chief executive of the Trussell Trust. “We therefore undertook a consultation with our staff at the beginning of this year to ensure that we deliver the best possible service for people referred to our foodbank network whilst maintaining the charity’s long-term financial sustainability.”
He said that the trust will separate from the FSCI, its partner charity in Bulgaria.
“Not many people know that The Trussell Trust’s work actually started in Bulgaria in 1997,” he said. “Since 2009 we have worked alongside our in-country sister organisation, the Foundation for Social Change and Inclusion, to prevent children being abandoned and young people being forced into crime, prostitution and human trafficking.
“As part of the restructure process it was decided that FSCI and The Trussell Trust would formally separate so both charities could focus on their respective primary work.”
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