Down to Zero records more than 5,600 volunteer hours in RCT
Down to Zero’s 44 regular volunteers contributed more than 5,600 hours during 2025–26, according to figures published by Rhondda Cynon Taf council on 15 October. The not-for-profit community benefit society grows affordable food and offers volunteering and training.
What the figures count
The council says more than 180 people took part in events, training and volunteering. The Llysh Bocs initiative distributed more than 230 food boxes, equivalent to 2.4 tonnes of food, to 80 customers across the county borough. Those are annual activity totals, not a count of households receiving support today.
Wider community funding
The same release says more than £206,000 was awarded to 112 community organisations during 2025–26 through emergency food support and winter hardship funds. That council-wide funding total is separate from Down to Zero’s volunteer hours and food-box figures; it is not all a grant to that project.
September visit, October publication
The council’s release describes a visit to the Llantrisant project on 17 September. It also highlights work with community growers and other organisations through the RCT Food Partnership. The reported activity shows the scale of that work, but the release does not provide an independent estimate of how much food poverty has fallen.
Background and supporting figures
Where this sits
Morethan230foodboxes and2.4tonnes went to80customers during2025–26; not a current household count.
£206,000-plus for112organisations is wider council hardship support, not the project budget.
The describedvisit was17September, not15October; no independently measured poverty reduction is supplied.