Between a carpet fitter and Dough Boys pizzeria, the shuttered white warehouse of Hillingdon food bank sits on a suburban cusp of London and the Home Counties. Amid a patchwork of newbuilds-to-be, council housing and edge-of-town office blocks, wafts of manure from surrounding farms sail over the street, and willow trees line the River Colne which runs alongside the building.
The food bank supplies goods to distribution centres and housebound individuals in the area, including in Boris Johnson’s constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, and the true blue enclave of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire: a parliamentary seat with one of the largest Conservative Associations in the country.
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