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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

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

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

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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

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

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)

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

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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

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

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

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

84 tributes, death and funeral notices from across Merseyside this week

Family and friends paid tribute to lost loved ones

Liverpool Echo

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

Wales Online

Parents skipping meals so children can eat as foodbank charity warns of 'national emergency'

The true scale of the crisis has been laid bare

Nottingham Post

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Daily Mirror

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

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

'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

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.

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Wales Online

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

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

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

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

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.

The Independent UK

One in 10 parents ‘very likely’ to use food banks to feed children over next three months

Third of families skipping meals because of rising costs, finds survey

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on charities and poverty: running on empty

Editorial: Don’t expect the voluntary sector to pick up the pieces from the destruction caused by rising prices and cruel benefit cuts

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