The number of people receiving emergency food parcels from the Trussell Trust has significantly increased from nearly 26,000 in 2008/09 to 2.9 million in the 12 months leading up to April this year.
This year from 1 April to 30 September, 1,496,847 food parcels were distributed from the Trussell Trust’s 1,585 locations across the UK - the most they have ever handed out in a sixth month period.
