For BBC Radio 2 presenter Sara Cox, a visit to a food bank project in Battersea – where she met staff, volunteers and mothers in need, and helped prepare food parcels – proved to be unexpectedly eye-opening.
“Even though you see news headlines about poverty and people who are struggling, when you’re there and unpacking the bags of pasta and tins of soup, it hits home just how tough it is for people,” she said. “Mums on a daily basis, they’ll skip lunch and breakfast and have dinner because they can’t afford to feed themselves and they’re saving the food for their kids. I’m just like, what the hell, this is such a rich country.”
