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Food banks

May 2023

  • ‘We always had some food poverty but now it’s not just that lowest, neediest layer’ … Katie Barry of St George’s primary school, Lincolnshire.

    ‘Why should anyone be hungry when there’s food that can be given away?’ The heroes feeding their neighbours

  • Illustration by Eleanor Bannister

    The heat or eat diaries
    My dad is ill, but his flat’s ceiling is falling in and our food bill has doubled. There’s no one to help us

    Siobhan
  • FLEETWOOD, 11 February 2020 - Fleetwood, once a major fishing port, situated on the northern tip of the Fylde coast in Lancashire. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is hanging on – podcast

  • The Big Lunch on Sunday in regents park London

    Coronation brought some communities together – but left others out in the cold

  • Food banks are taking over from the welfare state, warns Gordon Brown

  • When Amazon and Tesco join a ‘coalition of compassion’, you know the welfare state is failing

    Gordon Brown

April 2023

  • Cost of LivChristine Jenks, a first time user of the The Big Venture community shop in Wolverhampton.ing. The Big Venture Community Shop in Wolverhampton. Christine Jenks, a first time user of the shop.

    ‘People can’t just get used to it’: Wolverhampton reacts to Bank of England comments

  • Trussell’s network distributed nearly 3m food parcels in 2022-23.

    UK food bank charity reports record take-up amid cost of living crisis

March 2023

  • A tray containing items at a food bank in Coventry, Britain.

    Expanding food banks is no substitute for tackling poverty, charities warn

  • Storage shelves in food bank warehouse

    Food banks supported 800,000 UK children in 2021-22, data shows

  • Distributing venison ragu to food banks

    ‘Deer are destroying habitats’: push to get venison on to UK dinner plates

  • Amy Taylor

    This is England in 2023 – where a broken welfare system and a hernia can completely destroy your life

    Amy Taylor

  • On the ground
    Mould, cold and a community hub offering hope in the cost of living crisis – video

  • The heat or eat diaries
    Rich people help themselves, poor people help each other – I saw a food bank user take in a homeless friend

    Sophie

February 2023

  • A food bank in Eastbourne

    UK benefits fall short of minimum living cost by £140 a month, charities say

  • Cans of fruit at a Trussell Trust facility.

    ‘It’s dehumanising, horrible’: the food bank volunteer living on the breadline

  • Volunteers at a Trussell Trust food bank

    Revealed: record number of households in UK depending on food banks

  • Untitled Artwork 238

    Our unequal earth
    ‘Horrible timing’: pandemic food relief ends as inflation sends families scrambling

  • ‘Every day is doomsday’: how a food bank is struggling to keep up

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10 refuses to deny Sunak was given informal warning about Raab’s behaviour before he made him deputy PM – as it happened

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