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June 18, 2020

Unpaid carers twice as likely to have used a food bank during pandemic

Younger carers were more likely to live in a household with someone who experienced hunger.
January 21, 2020

Smethwick gets its first Your Local Pantry to help tackle food poverty

Smethwick Church Action Network (CAN) has set up the Smethwick pantry, to be run and used by local people, at Smethwick Library. The project is the latest in the growing Your Local Pantry network nationally, and the third in the Midlands.
March 3, 2018

Women's Institute launches national debate on food poverty

The National Federation of Women’s Institutes has launched a national debate on food poverty, with WI members across the country organising local events to look at how the issue affects people in their communities.
December 16, 2017

Social franchise to help reduce food bills

Church Action on Poverty and partners have launched Your Local Pantry as a social franchise, to enable more communities to reduce their food bills.
October 23, 2016

UK hunger – the worst is yet to come if we don't act

First, please watch this
July 19, 2016

New report shows persistence of hunger in 21st century UK

The #stillhungry report published today by the West Cheshire Foodbank, demonstrates the persistence of hunger in 21st century Britain, where one in three people receiving emergency food is a child.
October 31, 2015

Placing DWP staff in foodbanks

A few days ago, Giuseppina Salamone, a welfare rights adviser from Brighton, wrote
January 30, 2015

UK government lacks robust data on food poverty, says new report

The government has been asked by a cross-party group of MPs.
to commission fresh research into why people use food banks.
December 30, 2014

Poverty, malnourishment and Pecksniffery

Recently (28 December 2014) the Independent newspaper published a piece outlining some of the reasons why millions of Britons cannot afford a diet that will keep them healthily nourished.
May 21, 2014

Churches challenge food poverty with latest resource on foodbanks

The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and Church Action on Poverty have produced a resource for churches about food poverty.