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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Foodbanks 'deeply worried' about Christmas cost-of-living crisis as winter bites

Foodbanks are “deeply worried” about the winter as the cost-of-living crisis combines with plunging temperatures to hammer family budgets, a charity chief has warned.

Writing in the programme for a Trussell Trust Christmas service, charity chief executive Emma Revie warned: “More and more people are being forced into impossible decisions, like heating their homes or feeding their children.

“Foodbanks in the Trussell Trust network are telling us that they are deeply worried about what’s to come.”

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