Food Bank

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    Kia donates car for food bank use

    Kia has donated one of its Cee'd cars for local foodbank use. Helping out the Walton & Hersham Foodbank, the new addition means that the team run by volunteers can now do their business more quickly and

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    Record one million using foodbanks

    The number of people using foodbanks has reached a record one million after an increase in workers on low pay having to seek emergency help for food, new figures have revealed. The Trussell Trust said almost 400,000 children were among those

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  • NewsAOL

    Food bank conversion fund urged

    Half of Britain's 1,000 food banks should be given Government help to convert into community supermarkets, allowing them to switch from offering only emergency help to giving year-round assistance to people in "chronic food

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    Are charities being used to withhold welfare?

    A food bank in Nottingham has announced it will close at the end of the year, accusing the local city council of using it to avoid making hardship payments to vulnerable people. I've written in the past about the problem of food banks,

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    Demand for foodbanks 'triples'

    Three times as many people received emergency supplies from Trussell Trust foodbanks in the three months from April this year compared with the same period last year, and the charity claimed the Government's welfare changes contributed to the