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Give Food

The source of https://www.givefood.org.uk. A Google App Engine app written in Python, using Django and Djangae.

Structure

App Name Description URL
gfadmin Admin tool https://www.givefood.org.uk/admin/
gfapi1 Deprecated first version of our API https://www.givefood.org.uk/api/1/
gfapi2 Current API https://www.givefood.org.uk/api/
gfapi3 Future API https://www.givefood.org.uk/api/3/
gfdash Data dashboards https://www.givefood.org.uk/dashboard/
gfoffline Offline tasks
gfwfbn What food banks need tool https://www.givefood.org.uk/needs/
gfwrite Allow users to contact their MPs https://www.givefood.org.uk/write/
givefood Public app https://www.givefood.org.uk

About Us

We are a UK charity that uses data to highlight local and structural food insecurity then provides tools to help alleviate it.

We maintain the largest publicly available database of food banks and what they are requesting to have donated in the UK. We currently cover around 2800 locations.

Our data is used by governments, councils, universities, supermarkets, political parties, the NHS, food manufacturers, hundreds of national & local news websites, apps & the Trussell Trust.

Give Food is a registered charity in England & Wales 1188192

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Local development

To set up for local development, run the following:

  • virtualenv --python=python2.7 .venv
  • source .venv/bin/activate
  • ./install_deps
  • ./manage.py runserver