It's a blisteringly hot Wednesday morning and already the queue for Sneinton's Foodprint Shop has 15 people outside waiting. Foodprint, a social enterprise selling surplus food stock, has had to open a second day midweek to accommodate the growing queues due to the cost of living crisis.
Deputy Director Shoana Qureshi-Khan said: "We've seen the volume of people coming here increase by four times the amount since we took it over. We get a range of people coming in from all different backgrounds and now we get queues. The Saturday morning queue can start at 7:30 then it's chaos here with about 150 people coming in. We have only been open on Wednesday mornings for three weeks now."
Amber Jasmine from Sneinton has been queueing all morning in the heat with one of her children. She is a regular user of Foodprint and praises the help that Shoana and Nadeem, the store manager, have been able to give her.
