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.
Tag: Poverty & Change
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.
Number of homeless children hits 13-year high in ‘national shame’
The number of homeless children has hit a 13-year high in what Labour brand the “national shame” of a decade of Tory rule. Some 127,370 children were stuck in temporary accommodation between April and June – the most since spring 2006.
People are going for days without food – that’s normal now
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.
No-deal Brexit : Food banks may run out of food, charities warn PM
PM May must take action to ensure food shortages and inflation in event of a no-deal Brexit do not affect vulnerable people, major charities have said.
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