Food banks in the UK: A report by Gloria Tyler
Increases in emergency food parcels distributed by food banks accelerated over the coronavirus pandemic. The Trussell Trust reported a 33% increase in the number of food parcels distributed in 2020-21.
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Trussell Trust : End of year statistics for 2020-2021
Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021, food banks in the Trussell Trust’s UK wide network distributed 2.5 million emergency food parcels to people in crisis, a 33% increase on the previous year.
IFAN : Mapping the United Kingdoms independent food banks
Since 2017 IFAN has been working to identify independent food banks outside of the Trussell Trust network. Results from this research revealed 651 independent food banks operating across Britain in 2017.
Our nation faces a fork in the road – we must choose the right path
What decision will we make? We can either choose to build the biggest and best lifeboats to sail people to safety – or risk many more being swept into destitution if we do not invest enough to keep them afloat.
Britain’s lockdown diaries expose gulf in wellbeing between the rich and the poor
A collection of lockdown diaries compiled by 50 Britons over 3 weeks reveals a bleak contrast between those who can afford to cope in the current crisis, and those struggling to feed their families.
The DWP has ‘buried’ its secret report into foodbanks
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is sitting on its own ‘secret‘ investigation into foodbank use. It should have released it in October 2019. Now, an SNP MP has put the issue back on parliament’s agenda.
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