Food for thought: soup-runs and soup-kitchens - a Good Practice briefing

By: Good Practice Unit
Published: July 2005

Food for thought: soup-runs and soup-kitchens - a Good Practice briefing

Soup-runs operate in most cities and between them see hundreds of people each week. They have however, come under fierce criticism from some mainstream agencies, who are therefore either indifferent or in some cases even hostile to the existence of soup-runs.

This in turn leaves soup-runs isolated which means that in some cases they are not able to best help the people who they feed.