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.
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State of the Sector Survey 2021 – Have your say!
The 2021 State of the Sector survey is now live! Community Energy England, Wales and Scotland invite community organisations from across the UK, who are working on low carbon projects to respond to this survey.
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 crucial 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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- More than 50 died in Home Office asylum seeker accommodation in last five years
- Youth violence likely to explode over summer, UK experts fear
- Scrap two-child limit on benefits, urge government’s social mobility advisers
- ‘The hospitals are very near to not coping’: UK health workers speak out
- MPs call for ‘long overdue’ reform of council tax property values in England
- PM attempts to reassure southern MPs over ‘levelling up’
- ‘There’s a big community spirit’: how Brent is tackling health inequalities during Covid
- Tories have unhealthy financial reliance on property developers, says report