Labour has set a dramatic target to halve food bank use a year after Jeremy Corbyn enters Downing Street. And the party will aim to end the need for food banks completely within just three years of office.
“It’s not easy for someone to ask for help and it’s not easy for someone to say ‘I can’t feed myself’.” Those are the words of one worker at a food bank in Essex. She sees people walk in every day in a desperate situation.
Food bank manager, Chris Hardy, works with more than 30 volunteers to provide support to people in crisis in Sheffield. He tells Maryam Qaiser why cuts and austerity have left people unable to feed themselves.
To celebrate this year’s National Allotments Week, we [The Guardian] asked you to share pictures and stories of the bounty from your precious plots, many of which are run by local councils.
Since February 2017, the Independent Food Aid Network’s Sabine Goodwin has been working to identify independent food banks providing food parcels outside of the Trussell Trust network throughout the UK.
It’s one thing to read about poverty and quite another to see it up close. As a journalist I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve written about families suffering under the government’s austerity measures.
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