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Christian charity encourages churches to go beyond food banks
Christian charity Church Action on Poverty has encouraged local communities and churches to start food pantries as a long-term solution to tackling food poverty in their area.
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Holiday Hunger Challenge: £35 for a week – for a family of four
A Councillor from Portsmouth took on the FoodCycle Holiday Hunger Challenge, and writes about her families experience. Do you want to challenge yourself to take part in the Holiday Hunger Challenge? Get in touch!
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Surplus food – how it makes a difference to people’s lives
Every week a group of people gather at the lorry park in Dorset. It’s both a social occasion – time for a chat and a catch-up – and for business, too. And their business is simple. They are collecting food. 4.5 tonnes in June alone.
Morrisons hits milestone of 100,000 meals to FareShare
Morrisons formalised a partnership between its food production sites and the food redistribution charity FareShare in April 2017, to use surplus food occurring at their manufacturing sites to benefit people in need.
Below the breadline: tackling the rise of food poverty in Britain
Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, it is also deeply unequal, and millions of families are living below the breadline, Demand for emergency food aid has risen astronomically in the past few years.
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More charity shops than pubs closed [in the UK] last year
A study of the high street by the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Local Data Company, found that 271 charity shops closed down in the UK in 2017 and 202 opened – a net loss of 69 premises.
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