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Food Banks

Food banks urge Labour to rethink benefit cuts amid 'heartbreaking' surge in demand
Image from food bank charity Trussell showing volunteers sorting through food donations
Food banks

Food banks urge Labour to rethink benefit cuts amid 'heartbreaking' surge in demand

Trussell has reported a 46% increase in emergency food parcels provided for families with children compared to five years ago
Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'
Food poverty

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'

Food banks receiving 'rotten' donations from supermarkets 'not fit for human consumption'
food banks
Food banks

Food banks receiving 'rotten' donations from supermarkets 'not fit for human consumption'

Save tens of billions in public money by ending hunger – not slashing benefits, government told
Hunger

Save tens of billions in public money by ending hunger – not slashing benefits, government told

Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste
Carina Millstone

Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'Frustrated, angry, exhausted': Food banks forced to 'throw out food donated by supermarkets'
Food bank shelves
Food banks

'Frustrated, angry, exhausted': Food banks forced to 'throw out food donated by supermarkets'

Millions of universal credit and disability benefit claimants turn to food banks: 'I'm terrified of cuts'
food banks
Food banks

Millions of universal credit and disability benefit claimants turn to food banks: 'I'm terrified of cuts'

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Human rights

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money
Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness Day

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition

Majority of social housing tenants struggling to pay rent – here's why
a person paying bills with a calculator
Social housing

Majority of social housing tenants struggling to pay rent – here's why

How do we keep hope alive in 2025 when so many people are going hungry?
food banks
Sabine Goodwin

How do we keep hope alive in 2025 when so many people are going hungry?

Food banks are a lifeline – but not the solution. There are better ways to tackle poverty in 2025
food bank/ universal credit
Helen Barnard

Food banks are a lifeline – but not the solution. There are better ways to tackle poverty in 2025

'I was really struggling': Iceland expands interest-free loan scheme it says slashes food bank usage
Christmas

'I was really struggling': Iceland expands interest-free loan scheme it says slashes food bank usage

How to volunteer at a food bank
volunteers arrange food donations along rows of crates on tables
Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
a man sorts food donations into crates at a food bank
Food banks

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

Hunger is a violation of our basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis
People collecting food at a food bank
Alex Firth

Hunger is a violation of our basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it's the tip of the hunger iceberg
woman packing food parcels in food bank
Sabine Goodwin

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it's the tip of the hunger iceberg

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: 'It's a tragedy people can't afford their essentials'
Charlotte Ritchie at Trussell food bank
Food banks

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: 'It's a tragedy people can't afford their essentials'

'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
food bank
Food banks

'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

Over half of London working parents use food banks, study finds: 'Is this the country we live in?'
Food banks

Over half of London working parents use food banks, study finds: 'Is this the country we live in?'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
TV star AJ Odudu on why life can be 'humbling' and how we can all restore hope
Exclusive

TV star AJ Odudu on why life can be 'humbling' and how we can all restore hope

How 'social supermarkets' offer hope and dignity for people facing hunger
food banks/ rising costs
Caroline Moraes

How 'social supermarkets' offer hope and dignity for people facing hunger

Cost of living crisis is over? Try telling that to millions of Brits struggling to feed their kids
Lynn Perry

Cost of living crisis is over? Try telling that to millions of Brits struggling to feed their kids

Millions of Brits struggle to buy enough food for their children, research finds
A small child's hand holds an adult's finger
Child poverty

Millions of Brits struggle to buy enough food for their children, research finds

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