"fulfil a need" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
Example: The new community center will fulfil a need for affordable childcare services for low-income families in the area.
Because there are gaps in services, we are expected to fulfil a need, in fact lots of different needs.
In response to this need, Thames Valley recently launched its Fizzy Living project to fulfil a need for good quality, well-managed private accommodation for young professionals.
But those in the debt management industry argue that they do fulfil a need, and that free-to-use bodies such as the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS, Citizens Advice Bureauxx (CAB) and Money Advice Trust are inundated at present.
Often, this means the foundation mounting competitions for grant applications, and giving money to the winners, which usually means the most "pioneering" (Steiner's word) and those that promise to fulfil a need not met by other charities.
Josh supports this feeling of vulnerability by asking whether clinicians sometimes choose to do diagnostic tests to fulfil a need to do something tangible.
Some people write themselves a bucket list, as if big gestures fulfil a need and make you feel more complete.
Some of this variation is warranted in that it reflects patient preference: Hawker et al report that in some groups of patients only one third that would fulfil a needs assessment would be willing to undergo a joint arthroplasty.
The fact is, West Edmonton Mall fulfils a need in the city as a vast expanse of quasi-public space.
The retirement of Jamie Carragher at the end of the season after 737 matches left a huge void to be filled and, while the Ivory Coast international may only be a stop-gap, he fulfils a need for the Reds boss.
This willingness to be the reliable and dependable friend perhaps fulfils a need in you to be needed: it may indicate that you sometimes confuse giving love with being who you are, that you are OK so long as it is you who are doing the giving.
According to company president Larry Korman, "AKA fulfils a need among an increasingly nomadic culture of upscale consumers who have to be – or want to be – in one place for more than one week, whether it's for business, a home renovation, a job relocation, a divorce, or the desire for change".
