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City kids use secret handshake to let youth worker know there is no food at home

Councillor Mariam Khan warned that thousands of families are "struggling to live" and being forced to make "unsafe choices" amid the escalating cost-of-living crisis

Daily Mirror · Nov 1, 2022

What foodbanks in Cardiff need in the run-up to Christmas

Foodbanks are providing a vital service during the cost of living crisis

Wales Online · Oct 25, 2022

Donate tins, treats and toiletries: how to help a food bank

Give basics (and tin openers), food that doesn’t need cooking and add some snacks. Here’s what charities need to meet the demand for emergency food parcels

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2022

Pound rises over $1.13 and stock market closes higher as Liz Truss resigns – as it happened

Sterling has gained a cent against the US dollar after PM quits, on hopes that UK economic and political turmoil could ease

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2022

UK’s biggest food bank network to spend millions on parcels this winter

Exclusive: Trussell Trust to distribute 1.3m emergency food parcels to help soaring numbers of households in need

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2022

Food bank demand surges 46% ahead of ‘worst winter yet as tsunami of need’ outstrips donations

At least half a million children are in need of emergency food parcels, the Trussell Trust has warned

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2022

How to find a food bank and who is eligible to use them

One in six people in the UK used a food bank in March of this year, compared with one in 10 in 2021

Liverpool Echo · Oct 5, 2022

Welsh MP says the state can't 'catch' everyone and people should help each other

Robin Millar said the state should be the 'last resort' for helping people deal with the cost of living crisis

Wales Online · Oct 5, 2022

Families queue for emergency food five miles from Tories drinking Champagne at conference

Hungry households urged Conservatives descending on Birmingham to throw them a lifeline - with inflation running at 9.9 per cent, food prices rocketing and banks scrapping mortgage deals, many fear their plight will deepen

Daily Mirror · Oct 4, 2022

Hungry families at food bank - five miles from champagne-quaffing Tory conference

The Mirror visited the Tyseley Foodbank in Birmingham, across the city from where Conservatives are gathered for their annual jamboree

Daily Mirror · Oct 4, 2022