When is a favour not a favour.

I think if you are happy ‘volunteering’ then that’s what it should be - no payment of any sort, other than the odd cup of tea and a biscuit, if you’re lucky. Perhaps you could request reimbursement of fuel or bus fares (if appropriate) instead?
I’m also not certain about being paid in food and if you don’t need it, then leave it for others who do, or drop it off at a local food bank. As for your neighbour, I’d tell him that things have changed within your organizations and the free food (gravy train) had ceased. As a single person (?) he must be over-supplied with £hundreds worth of food a month, judging by what I and other GNs spend.

I had a friend in between jobs I used to feed him. When I needed a small job doing he quoted me a price. I was flabbergasted but paid him I needed the job doing. I didn't encourage him around again our friendship ended.

Have you thought what might happen to your friendship, if you stop volunteering for some reason?
In a way you are making him reliant on you for a very important part of his budget.
Situations like this rarely end well.
Just thinking out loud.

If you are getting "paid" in food, then you are not really a volunteer, you are an employee I suspect that the auditors would be interested to hear that the organisations work like this, as would the taxman.

Plus, how is it that when food banks and food distribution centres are supposed to be helping the people most in need, the organisations are getting so much more in donations that they can regularly give to a "volunteer" so much stuff that the volunteer can give away hundreds of pounds worth every month to a neighbour, as well as benefitting herself?

I think you should tell the organisation to give you hundreds of pounds' worth less each month, and then tell your neighbour to sign up as a volunteer himself if he wants the food gifts that go with volunteering - or he could even be honest and join the queue of clients who use the service, as that is in effect what he is doing (as you are).

If you don't want to talk to him direct about this then next time you have someone do work for you don't give your neighbour any of the food. If he asks why tell him you gave it to the person who did the work as he didn't charge you, perhaps he will then get the hint.

Out of interest, what is Olio and Foodstop? I’m assuming Foodstop is equivalent to a food bank? Never heard of Olio.
Are you in the UK?
It rather surprises me that volunteers are given so much free food that is presumably given in the first instance to support those in need?

I would ask "does he need this or can he buy his own bread"?
Surely there are more needy people out there now?

Has he signed up on Olio?

You are not giving him something of yours it seems to me.

My daughter volunteered for Olio before she moved area. She was never paid in food. She did have food from the project but it was not payment.
I think you maybe are seeing it as payment but really you are volunteering and if your neighbour wants to benefit he should sign up himself.

I don't know FoodStop but maybe that is similar?

I would give the food to a food bank.

Tickingbird… that’s exactly what I think. But I’m never quick enough to think that and say it.
I agree with all your comments. But just getting it to move forward easily without losing a friend is my issue.

Good of you to be giving this man so much free food and saving him a lot of money. He shouldn’t be expecting any payment from you for small jobs. If he can’t clean your guttering for you without expecting payment he’s money grubbing. I, personally, would stop the food donations and/or next time he comes out with “I’d have done that for less” I’d reply “you should do it for nothing”.

I agree, doing favours work both ways. I think you should stop or a least give less to this rather ungrateful neighbour and perhaps not tell him when and how much when you have jobs done.

Your neighbour sounds like a greedy freeloader to me.

I also do a lot of voluntary work and favours for people, but when I need something nothing is ever done to help me.

I have stepped back a bit now, but am finding it hard as I like to help people and keep myself busy.

He most certainly should not charge you for doing a job for you. Taking you for granted !?

Maybe it’s time to stop giving your neighbour free food?