Britain’s biggest food bank might close as their energy bill for four fridge freezers is due to skyrocket to £30,000 - and could double again. Ray Barron-Woolford has an army of 200 volunteers currently feeding 5,000 households, but he expects that will go up to between 10,000 and 20,000 this winter.
The local hero is terrified the operation will close because running their freezers has soared from £68 per month at the beginning of the year, to an eye-watering £498. Ray said he is currently too scared to put the lights on, and is operating in the dark in fear of their increasing bills getting even higher.
It started off supplying 30 households with healthy meals during the pandemic, but as more people fall into poverty the foodbank now feeds 5,000 families each month. He described food banks as “the last frontline”, and without them hundreds of thousands of pensioners, children, parents and students who rely on their work will be abandoned with nowhere left to turn.
