Cardinal Vincent Nichols hosted the first of a series of roundtables on food poverty on 2 May 2014 with representatives from Caritas Westminster, parishes and schools to discern the problem of food poverty at the local level and to coordinate the Church’s response. The roundtable aims to bring together representatives from parishes and schools across London and Hertfordshire who have already established local initiatives to deal with food poverty together with Caritas, the St Vincent de Paul Society and Magic Breakfasts, to help coordinate the effort and provide additional support at grassroots level.