The Food Train: supporting older people to eat healthily at homeCosts and Savings The economic evaluation calculated the direct costs of delivering The Food Train’s services in 2008/09 were just over £211,000. This consisted of:
This allowed for over 15,000 grocery deliveries, and 1,000 EXTRA home support visits. This generated £31,000 in service charges to customers. Grants and donations were levered into the service equivalent to over £193,000. The importance of volunteers to The Food Train is demonstrated by an estimate made by an evaluation of the Food Train’s economic value. It was estimated that the total unpaid time invested for the year 2008/09 was 27,500 hours. This works out as invested time equivalent to £277,000 (using an average hourly rate for volunteers of £10.10) . ![]() |
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Michelle McCrindle Chief Executive Tel: (00 44) (0) 1387 270800 Gaynor Grant National Development Officer Email: Tel: (00 44) (0) 7545 925513 ![]() Frankie Hine-Hughes wrote this case study for Governance International on 22 March 2012. |