‘I have to choose between food and heat’: demand soars at food bank in Tory-held Wandsworth

A food bank that usually operates in St Andrew’s church has been relocated outside due to the space being used as a polling station for Thursday’s local elections. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Up the road, estate agent windows display £850,000 properties and there’s a wide selection of high-end coffee shops.

But in recent months, every Thursday morning, a queue has formed outside St Andrew’s church in Earlsfield, part of the London borough of Wandsworth, as the redbrick building transforms into a food bank.