Merseyside is facing a “tsunami” as it continues to battle with the growing cost of living crisis, according to food poverty campaigners.
In the last year Fans Supporting Foodbanks, an initiative launched in 2015, has fed more than 100,000 people via its mobile food pantries which operate at six sites across the city - including Walton, Toxteth, Netherley, Vauxhall, Fazakerley and West Derby. But the organisation’s chair, Dave Kelly, believes significant challenges lie ahead despite the best efforts to confront hunger and food insecurity across the region.
He told the ECHO while more people are donating to the service, the amount each person can give is being impacted by the increasing strain on household income. Next spring, it is predicted that the energy price cap freeze will be lifted from an annual average of £2,500, something which he says “doesn't bear thinking about”, such will be the impact on the most vulnerable across the city.
