‘We’ve just had the king’s coronation and people are still going hungry. What’s that about?” Food charity founder Cocoa Fowler speaks with the passion of someone who daily bears witness to an increasing number of people struggling to feed themselves and their families.
Hunger is now widespread in the UK. Almost 10 million adults and 4 million children do not have enough to eat – nearly double what it was a year ago. More than 2 million adults cannot afford to eat every day. It has been called a “domestic humanitarian crisis”. Which is why Fowler and others like him have felt compelled to set up local food banks and community larders.