11-Year-Old Selflessly Uses Birthday Money To Start Up Food Bank In Time For Christmas

Dec 26, 2022 by apost team

They say kids have the purest hearts – and a young guy had proven just that after he launched a foodbank during the pandemic. Since then, he has been on a mission to make sure those in need get to have a merry Christmas.

Most kids simply want to receive gifts for Christmas, and there's nothing wrong with it. After all, kids are meant to enjoy their childhood – and receiving gifts from their parents or grandparents during Christmas will definitely make their childhood more memorable. Meanwhile, one kid from the town of Redditch in Worcestershire, England, is changing the game by putting up his own foodbank to bring smiles to the faces of other people.

It all started in 2020 when Isaac Winfield used his birthday money to launch a foodbank at his garden shed after he found out that his new school didn't accept food donations.

"Being the resilient little lad he is he said 'it's alright, we'll give them food at my house," Winfield's mom Claire Chapman told Wales Online.

Winfield's initiative started as a small project which became an integral part of their community, bringing in sponsors such as supermarket chain Morrison's and a local charity called Building Bridges to keep the project afloat. He even managed to have a YouTuber donate a van to help with his foodbank mobile up-and-running.

He also launched his own Facebook page called Friends of Isaac's Food Bank, as well as a website where people who want to help can easily reach out to him.

Since then, Winfield's foodbank has expanded into an organization that aims to help even those outside his community. He even collected device chargers that use solar power to help those affected by the war in Ukraine. 

Now 11 years old as of 2022, he opened his second foodbank with the main goal of helping others who can't pay their bills amid the cost-of-living crisis. Winfield's second foodbank is called 'Samuel's Place,' named after the son of a business owner who donated the shed to him.

"Isaac wanted to help and particularly those who are cold and hungry at Christmas time. We're thrilled we've been able to open a second foodbank," Chapman said.

Winfield's food bank is open 24 hours which means people can get food and supplies round the clock. Those who wish to donate can also do so anytime.

A kid himself, Winfield, knows exactly what it feels like not to receive a toy for Christmas. So, he set up a toy donation shed on his driveway to help so parents who cannot afford to buy toys for their children will finally have something to give to their kids.

"The toy shed has helped so many people this year, we must have handed out more than 100 gifts and we have had three times the number of donations," Chapman told the Daily Mail.

In an interview with 5 News, Chapman said Winfield probably has no idea about how many lives he had changed with his initiative.

"I was quite blown away," Chapman said of her son's passion for helping others. She then described her son as an "incredibly kind, generous, giving young man" who puts everybody else's lives first.

Chapman said she couldn't be prouder of her son for his passion for helping despite having a rare chromosome disorder.

"It's massively helped with his confidence, with his disability it has massively helped. To help all these people and hear how much of a wonderful job it's boosted his confidence. He can't read or write but he can fundraise," Chapman said.

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