Food Train Glasgow ensures hundreds of older people across the city do not go without lifeline grocery food shopping and meal supplies, but the service faces closure within weeks without urgent funding support.

We are calling on Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) to work with Food Train to secure the money needed to keep the service going, to protect vulnerable older people, and not add further pressure to our already strained NHS and social care services, which our closure undoubtedly would.

Our members are fearful for the future without access to their weekly food deliveries. Walter, aged 70, who lives alone and suffers from the terminal illness Motor Neurone Disease told us:

“It really is essential that they are funded because there are so many people who totally depend on Food Train. It cannot be measured against anything and without them delivering my shopping I will starve. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I really can't see any other outcome."

As experts in older people’s food security, health, social care and wellbeing - and simply as human beings, we are incredibly concerned at the impact this decision will have on the lives of hundreds of older people across the city who rely on Food Train to access food, as well as the wider social support our services provide.

If Glasgow Food Train is forced to close, older people will be left hungry and in crisis, with their only option to seek social care from Glasgow City HSCP. The question is: How will they do that?

Please sign this petition to demand action from Glasgow City HSCP.