Generous Lanarkshire shoppers donate over 570 meals to help local food bank Asda in Blantyre held the food drive through the month of May to help those in need in the area. Daily Record · Jun 13, 2022
Food banks: The different support scheme available to you if you need help Food bank use is higher than ever before Wales Online · May 29, 2022
Food bank stocks diminishing as cost of living crisis grips Bristol The number of people using the service has doubled in the last few months Bristol Post · May 20, 2022
Food banks: an MP claimed there's no massive use for them in the UK – the evidence shows why he's wrong There is no “massive use for food banks” in the UK, according to Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield. However, figures and evidence from food bank organisations, charities and researchers show that this is simply not the case. The Conversation · May 20, 2022
World Hunger Day: What food banks really need you to donate right now As food bank use increases but donations fall, here’s how you can help your community The Independent UK · May 19, 2022
Town is first to declare UK cost of living EMERGENCY as foodbank use surges Eastbourne Foodbank has this year distributed more parcels per head than any other as the cost of living crisis deepens, prompting them to issue an emergency declaration, the Trussell Trust network says Daily Mirror · May 18, 2022
Eastbourne council becomes first council to declare ‘cost of living emergency’ Exclusive: Lib Dem-run authority will pass motion to give Tory government ‘wake-up call’ and help local charities The Independent UK · May 18, 2022
Calls for Independent Food Commission to be introduced in Scotland CALLS for an independent Food Commission in Scotland are being led by organisations including FareShare, WWF Scotland and the Trussell Trust. The National (Scotland) · May 16, 2022
Greater Manchester streets where a bacon sandwich might be all you eat in a day Salford has been hit with a sharp rise in families needing emergency food parcels Manchester Evening News · May 15, 2022
Man has 'sobering experience' living off food bank parcel for three days Ivan Morris Poxton wanted to get a first-hand experience of what struggling families are currently going through as the cost of living crisis deepens Daily Mirror · May 15, 2022
Charities condemn Tory MP Lee Anderson's comments for adding to foodbanks' 'negative stigma' 'It's not fair for the people who need to use those services. People have gone hungry because they are embarrassed' Nottingham Post · May 12, 2022
Conservative MP sparks fury by saying there is not a ‘massive use’ for food banks in UK Mr Anderson, however, said meals could be cooked from scratch ‘for about 30 pence a day’ Evening Standard · May 11, 2022
Two million Britons skipping meals because they cannot afford to eat every day An estimated 2.6million children also report they now have smaller meals than usual, regularly skip meals altogether or do not eat when they are hungry, a survey has found Daily Mirror · May 9, 2022
84 tributes, death and funeral notices from across Merseyside this week Family and friends paid tribute to lost loved ones Liverpool Echo · May 8, 2022
Wales Online · May 5, 2022 Asda shoppers urged to donate grocery items for latest in-store food bank campaign It will run from May 6 to 8, with store staff, alongside volunteers from the Trussell Trust network, encouraging customers to donate food items and toiletries
Nottingham Post · May 2, 2022 Parents skipping meals so children can eat as foodbank charity warns of 'national emergency' The true scale of the crisis has been laid bare
Daily Mirror · Apr 28, 2022 Remote rural community faces hidden hunger crisis as people 'scared' amid soaring costs In 2016-17, South Lakes food banks gave out 674 parcels, 183 to children. In 2019-20, that figure rose to 1,091. From April 2021 to March 2022, two small food banks gave out 2,486 food parcels
Daily Mirror · Apr 28, 2022 Mum forced to use food bank to feed her daughter despite having a full time job Caroline Rice, who lives and works in County Fermanagh in rural Northern Ireland, is one of tens of thousands of workers in the UK who are being pushed into the poverty bracket because of spiralling living costs
Belfast Live · Apr 27, 2022 'It’s not easy walking into a food bank and saying you need help,' admits NI mum as demand soars Food bank use here has increased as the cost-of-living crisis escalates.
Daily Record · Apr 27, 2022 Scots pick up 200,000 food bank parcels a year in 'accelerating' poverty crisis Trussell Trust figures show its Scottish network provided more than 197,000 food parcels to people facing financial hardship across the country from April 1 last year to March 21 this year.
Wales Online · Apr 27, 2022 Welsh morning headlines: The latest news, coronavirus, Ukraine and sport news as food banks see demand soar Parents are skipping meals, turning off appliances and going without heating to afford the internet so their children can do their homework
Glasgow Live · Apr 27, 2022 Food banks provide almost 200,000 parcels to people across Scotland in past year Data released today shows that food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network provided some 197,000 food parcels to struggling families between 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022 Food bank demand soars in pandemic with 830,000 parcels given to children as ‘life is nothing but struggle’ ‘I have days when I’ve not even wanted to be here anymore because I don’t feel I can face life now,’ one new food bank user says
Bristol Post · Apr 26, 2022 Thousands of food parcels handed out to struggling Bristol families "People are telling us they’re skipping meals so they can feed their children"
The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022 UK food banks have provided more than 2.1 million food parcels in past year It is the first time food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network have handed out more than two million parcels outside the height of the pandemic.