Feeding families at people’s pantries

Sheenika Webb-Rainsby and her sons at the ‘people’s pantry’ in King’s Cross, London. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The successful London “people’s pantry” where a week’s shop costs £3.50 (Report, 11 September) sounds remarkably similar to the Your Local Pantry scheme that has been running since 2013. It has 90,000 members across the country and is run by a partnership including Church Action on Poverty.
Hazel Palmer
York

• Re messages of condolence from children (Letters, 13 September), when a primary school class was asked for comments about my late sister-in-law, one child wrote: “Mrs W was very kind. When I burnt my bottom on the radiator she let me sit on a cushion.” Kindness comes in all sorts of surprising ways.
LB Gresham
Birmingham