A Newcastle foodbank is handing out more than 2,000 food parcels each month for the first time as it sees demand soar during the cost of living crisis.
Newcastle West End Foodbank is one of the biggest and busiest in the UK, helping to feed over 43,000 people a year from its seven centres across the city. Now it has revealed its "sobering" reality as it hands out more than 2,000 food parcels each month.
The alarming figure was reached for the first time in June and is continuing, with the latest figures showing 2,019 food parcels were distributed in September, compared with 1,375 in the same month last year.
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