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Food banks

October 2023

  • People of all ages cross a street

    More than 1 million UK children experienced destitution last year, study finds

  • Children eating in Doncaster, UK.

    UK parents: do you worry about stretched finances during half-term?

  • Polly Toynbee

    I went to Labour conference in search of its plans for radical reform – what I found gave me hope

    Polly Toynbee
  • A wall covered by bold, black graffiti that points towards a local food bank in Harehills, one of the most deprived areas of Leeds,

    Will Labour end the need for food banks in Britain?

September 2023

  • People leave after visiting a food pantry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    The hidden cost of a shutdown: America’s battle with food insecurity

    The farm bill, which finances Snap benefits, must be renewed by Congress this year, as a rising number of Americans are going hungry
  • OPINION HEAT OR EAT DIARY 38 FINAL

    The heat or eat diaries
    Even though I now have a job, my history of being on benefits made flat-hunting a nightmare

    Sophie
    After 30 years, I had to move – and I found myself plunged into a dog-eat-dog battle to find a home, says Sophie
  • Volunteers stacking shelves at a food bank

    UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers

    Exclusive: Volunteers and staff traumatised by relentless workload and efforts to help destitute clients

August 2023

  • A food bank in London.

    The Guardian view on extreme poverty: the law should make essentials affordable

  • Wire basket of fruit on a school table

    One in four teachers gave food to hungry pupils in England last term, survey finds

July 2023

  • OPINION CARTOON Betsy Hynes 25.07.2023

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Betsy Hydes on Rishi Sunak’s urban housebuilding plans – cartoon

    Prime minister promises new focus on inner-city housebuilding projects
  • Workers of local cooperatives in their new distribution center, funded by the municipality of Liège.

    A food revolution: campaigners in Liège want all the region’s produce to be grown locally. Can they do it?

    In the Belgian city, a group of tireless activists have one life-changing aim: to ensure most of their food is local and organic. What can we learn?
  • Johnny Mercer, minister for veterans' affairs

    Food bank use a ‘personal decision’, says veterans minister

    Johnny Mercer says food bank use not an accurate measure of poverty after reports of some military personnel relying on them

June 2023

  • Volunteers at a food bank

    ‘Food banks are not the answer’: charities search for new way to help UK families

  • Michelle Dornelly in front of the Fawcett Estate Community Hall, the future site of her new Community Food Hub. Michelle Dornelly is the founder and CEO of Children With Voices and Hackney Community Food Hub in which she works full time and unpaid. The food hub provides food for up to 100,00 people. Michelle Dornelly was recently awarded a Pride of Britain award for her volunteer work.

    Smile, it’s summer
    Happy endings: the food bank Guardian readers helped find a home

  • illustration for Heat or Eat opinion series

    The heat or eat diaries
    The other day in the supermarket I was accused of stealing. Heartlessness has crept into everyday life

    James
  • Food being sorted at a food bank.

    Campaigners urge London food banks to end use of face scans

May 2023

  • Busy corridor in an NHS hospital in England

    The NHS must be funded by taxes, not charity

  • Earlsfield food bank in south-west London

    ‘You wake up wondering where your next meal is coming from’: UK food bank crisis is only getting worse

  • A person holds a basket with food items at Peckham Pantry in London, Britain, 26 April 2023.

    Ensuring people are fed is a job for the government, not charities

  • Green plastic basked containing tins of food

    Pupils who used food banks in pandemic fared worse at GCSEs, study finds

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