Help The Hungry: ‘Someone delivering for me each day makes me feel less isolated’

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Sometimes I just want to scream,” said Judith Olley, describing how she’s coped with spending two months in her small flat in Clapton – entirely alone. Knowing I would get at least one meal a day from Made in Hackney was amazing.” She added: “Knowing that someone would come to my house and see if I was dead or alive every day – it sounds bad, but it is reassuring. “I wouldn’t have been feeling half as good as I am without the food from Made in Hackney.” open image in gallery Made in Hackney volunteers deliver food to elderly residents As well as loneliness and missing family, everyday tasks such as accessing online technology or cooking can be difficult for some older people, according to a recent Age UK report. “My iPad packed up early into lockdown which meant I couldn’t contact people, or get deliveries.” He has benefited from the largesse of Katie-Louise Barber who has been cooking hundreds of meals from Felix-supplied produce out of her home in Barnet since the start of the pandemic.