Thousands of West Australians seeking food from Foodbank, half of them children, are being turned away due to a lack of provisions.

Foodbank WA chief executive Greg Hebble said its 2014 Hunger Report released today showed they were turning away 8,800 people a month.

The charity provides food for more than 51,000 people in the state every month.

But Mr Hebble said demand for food relief had climbed 15 per cent in the past year with low income families the hardest hit.

"The biggest area we're actually providing for are low-income families and that is followed by single parent families and the unemployed," Mr Hebble said.

"Many of them are living pay cheque [to] pay cheque, their income is low, once they get general expenses out of the way, they never find enough money at the end of the budget for food."

Communities Minister Tony Simpson said the Government was committed to working strongly with Foodbank.

"It is a sad case, 7,000-odd people unable to access some sort of food ... as the Minister for Communities we've got right behind Foodbank in increasing their capacity to ensure we can hopefully bring that [figure] down," he said.

"Last March we did the sod turn on the brand new building at Perth airport, so they'll have a brand new purpose built facility for Foodbank."

15,000 children seeking food relief

Foodbank WA supplies food to charity and welfare organisations, who then distribute it to people in need.

He said more than 15,000 of those seeking food relief are children.

"It's vitally important that we give our children a good start in life," Mr Hebble said.

"It's just disturbing to think that there are so many children out there that aren't being given the right opportunities for a good healthy lifestyle."

He said as part of Poverty Week and World Food Day Foodbank WA was trying to raise awareness of the issue.

"We're hoping that we can spread the word, build the awareness," Mr Hebble said.

"Maybe there's organisations out there that might start a food drive or decide that they want to come on board and be part of one of our major programs to purchase food.

"It could be someone living in your neighbourhood, it could be someone that is very close to you but is very ashamed or very embarrassed about saying that they're doing it tough.

"So let's start to talk to people, let's make it a common discussion and then let's work out what we can do."

The charity has recently struggled with obtaining enough staple food to distribute to those in need and plans to spend $250,000 this year boosting stocks.

"If we can get somebody on board to help us with part of that, that would be fantastic," Mr Hebble said.

Every $1 donated to the charity will purchase $7 worth of food from suppliers.