A Tyneside mum collapsed after walking two miles with her young children seeking help from a local foodbank.
The team at South Shields based foodbank Hospitality and Hope organised for the family to be taken home and provided them with emergency food support. This is not an isolated incident, however, and this family is just one of many across the region struggling to put food on the table during the cost of living crisis.
Hospitality and Hope's foodbank supports people who are living in food insecurity, and are available for collections weekdays between 10 and 12. In a normal year, they would distribute 40 tonnes of food to over 4,700 people, but the demand in recent months has exceeded this massively.
