foodbanks

July 2, 2017

Government-created destitution

A few days ago (29 June 2017) there was an event in Westminster – ‘The Co
May 30, 2017

Foodbanks, welfare reform, and 'cash flow problems'

Yesterday ( 29 May 2017 ) on a live television show, former Justice Minister Dominic Raab stated that people who used foodbanks were not “languishing in poverty” but experiencing a “cash flow probl
October 23, 2016

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

First, please watch this
October 18, 2016

Stop trying to fix poor people – fix poverty

The news that the Troubled Families scheme
July 23, 2016

Holiday hunger: a national shame

The start of the school holidays should be a happy time for children, but in too many cases the anticipation of leisurely sunny days and fun activities has been replaced by worry and anxiety.
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.
April 21, 2016

Benefit sanctions: have your say

Faith communities throughout the land, because of their work with people in need, are only too aware of the devastating impact of benefit sanctions on some of the poorest and most disadvantaged mem
March 5, 2016

Benefit sanctions - inhumane, legally dubious and potentially fatal

A mother too malnourished to breastfeed her baby - not in a famine-stricken developing country, but in the UK, today.
January 12, 2016

Our government is failing to uphold our human right to food

Enough is enough. We can no longer tolerate families going hungry in the seventh wealthiest nation on the planet.
December 30, 2015

Creating poverty behind a veil of rhetoric

Government ministers often talk about 'hard' and 'soft' power, usually in the context of foreign policy, where soft power is diplomacy and hard power is military.