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Food and shopping vouchers to support people in need


Food, shopping, school lunch, and fuel vouchers provide a lifeline to people who find themselves in financial hardship or vulnerable situations. And the extra surge of support in these areas during the pandemic has left many non-profit organisations working around the clock.
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We can help to disburse your funds easier and faster with our aid distribution solutions that won’t cost you an extra penny. So far this year, we’ve helped distribute £250 million worth of emergency aids around the world, including £90 million in the UK. Why don’t you let us help you too?

Download our overview to find out how we can help you – including a case study on one of our charity partners.
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Helping non-profits and charities disburse hardship funds faster


How it works

We begin every partnership finding out about your organisation and how we can support you and your beneficiaries. Our expert team then develop a bespoke distribution solution for you, and work quickly and efficiently to put these actions in place. 

We’ve distributed funds through prepaid cards, gift cards & digital codes that can be used at all major supermarkets and popular retailers. By providing food, shopping, fuel and school lunch vouchers in this way we find that recipients are more likely to use the money on goods they need – rather than funds getting lost on overdraft payments. 

Other benefits of using prepaid cards, gift cards and digital codes as hardship aids include:


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A reduction in your admin and processing of bank transfers
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An improvement of your audit trail, as no cash is given
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Your funds will go further; a £500 voucher could cost as little as £485*
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Aids can be received within 24 hours of payment
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Visibility of spend and areas of need, with our retailer redemption report
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The ability to customise cards and send personalised messages
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Elimination of transfer fees

Our food, shopping and school lunch vouchers


Our gift card range includes all popular grocery retailers and are used to provide funds for vulnerable people and families who need extra support to buy their weekly shop. Our supermarket gift cards and eGifts are also given to children who require school lunch vouchers in term-time, during half-term, and the summer and Christmas holidays.  

Tesco food vouchers 

Morrisons food vouchers 

Sainsburys food vouchers 

Multi-supermarket food vouchers 

Alongside our grocery gift cards, we also have other hardship aid solutions that we can tailor to your individual organisation’s needs. These solutions can all be personalised with your branding too.  

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Select is our online platform that delivers codes electronically to your recipients. Codes are then swapped for gift cards or eGifts from a wide range of retailers, including supermarkets.  

Open Loop Prepaid Cards


Prepaid cards are ideal for helping people pay for fuel, or when you need to distribute a large number of cash funds. Our Prepaid Mastercard® can be used anywhere that Mastercard® is accepted and is available as a single load or reloadable card.  

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Multi-Retailer Gift Cards


Our One4all gift card can be spent at a wide range of retailers nationwide, in-store and online. Retail sectors that accept our popular gift card include restaurants,  home and clothing.  

Charities we’re working with to disburse hardship funds


We’ve partnered with a growing number of charities and non-profit organisations, including the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC), who support people in the hospitality industry when they go through a difficult patch. 

LTC’s Grant Manager kindly commented on our partnership: 

“In less than a week we received over 3,000 applications in a 48-hour period, that volume is what we usually deal with in a year. It meant we needed to send out –eCodes really quickly to ensure people were not in financial hardship for too long. We were very impressed with the transparency, honesty and friendly approach that the Blackhawk Network team took to ensure that the project would go smoothly.” 

To read more about our partnership with LTC download the case study below. 

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If your organisation is looking for support with its hardship fund disbursement, please start a conversation and one of our team will be in touch.
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Our prepaid cards are issued by Blackhawk Network (UK) Ltd, an Electronic Money Institution authorised in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority with Firm Reference number 900023; pursuant to license from Mastercard International. Mastercard © is a registered trademark of Mastercard International Incorporated. Blackhawk Network (UK) Ltd's company registration number is 05802971 and its registered office is at Westside, London Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9TD.

The One4all Gift Card is issued by GVS Prepaid Ltd. GVS Prepaid Limited is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (register reference 900230) for the issuing of electronic money.