Foodbanks in Birmingham are at their busiest ever. With Universal Credit being rolled out there are fears things will get worse. A few days before Christmas one busy food bank handed out more than two tonnes of food.
Between 1 April and 30 September 2017 The Trussell Trust’s foodbank network distributed 586,907 three day emergency food supplies to people in crisis compared to 519,342 in 2016, 208,000+ went to children.
At the age of 17 I knew there was something that had changed about my Auntie. The things she was saying didn’t make sense; It’s as if overnight she had suddenly started to see the world very differently to how she used to.
Due to the unfair shame and stigma attached to receiving help, a study conducted by the University of Oxford found that four in five people who use food banks go hungry multiple times throughout the year.
Both supermarkets and the Government need to do more to tackle the UK’s food waste problem, which sees £10bn worth of food thrown away by households each year, according to a report from the parliamentary committee.
A food bank boss has spoken out poignantly about his heartbreaking Christmas trying to help hundreds of tearful, “broken” people in need. Denis Curran MBE revealed that his charity gave out 400 parcels of bare necessities over the festive season.
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