At a time when hunger and want have soared in the UK and across globe amid the coronavirus pandemic, never has reaching out to our communities been more important. That’s why Unite has set up its…Read more…
Crisis of hunger
The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a crisis of hunger, as new figures from the Trussell Trust food bank network show a surge in demand for food parcels since the pandemic began. The latest…Read more…
‘Bringing both sides of the community together’
Covid is a cruel virus scarring us mentally as well as physically – raising anxiety, fears. Keeping families apart, making those happily living alone, lonely. But outside of the unreal TV-land…Read more…
‘All we have left is each other’
Unite Community members are mobilising to help communities at a time of national crisis as the coronavirus epidemic sweeps the UK. With vast numbers of elderly and immuno-compromised people…Read more…
Steepest rise ever
A major spike in food bank use has prompted the nation’s leading supplier of emergency food parcels to call on politicians of all parties to ensure they pledge to protect people from hunger —…Read more…
Food bank use up – again
Food bank use has skyrocketed by nearly 20 per cent over the last year, fuelled by Universal Credit delays, benefits cuts and low incomes. The largest food bank provider in the UK, the…Read more…
Blog: Five weeks is too long
It’s difficult to see how Universal Credit can continue to deliver anything but misery for many. It’s difficult to see how any government – even this one – can justify ploughing on regardless in the…Read more…
Admit the truth call
Under increasing pressure to change tack on Universal Credit, work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd has herself admitted that the government’s flagship welfare reform has contributed to a rise in…Read more…
Grinning Tory MPs and Food Banks
Check out this article in “NewStateman” on “When Tory MPs visit foodbanks – Armed with tins of beans and bags of sugar, elected representatives of this government have been posing alongside the damage they’ve done.”
I do not for minute pret…Read more…
‘Too little, too late’
The unprecedented rise in food bank use in the last decade is a phenomenon that successive Tory governments have long buried their heads in the sand over. Just last year, Tory MP Jacob…Read more…
Credit where it’s due
In a symbolic victory against the government’s cruel and botched rollout of Universal Credit (UC) – which has seen thousands of families fall through the cracks, facing eviction and hunger as their…Read more…
Universal Credit halt call
Calls for the Tories’ botched introduction of a new benefits system to be halted have grown louder, after it was revealed the roll out has led to an up-swing in food bank usage because people are…Read more…
‘Compassionate country’
Toffee-nosed Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg ignited outrage yesterday (September 14) after describing rocketing food bank usage as “uplifting”. The multimillionaire MP – tipped as a potential…Read more…
May – help hungry kids plea
With the schools breaking up for the long summer holidays, Liverpool Walton MP Dan Carden appealed to the prime minister to do more to help families worried about how to feed their children during…Read more…
General election 2017: pay and the cost of living
With just a few days to go, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on the issues most important to our members
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‘Hidden’ food banks
Hundreds of “hidden” food banks have revealed record levels of food poverty in the UK. Research from the Independent Food Aid Network (Ifan) indicates that the true level of food poverty…Read more…
Food bank Britain
As families already struggling under a generation of austerity are doubly hit by the introduction of Universal Credit, food bank use has skyrocketed and now stands at an all-time high. The…Read more…
A run on the bank
The rise of food banks are the most visible face of the poverty crisis affecting the UK in 2017 – they’re the country’s new emergency service. We spent a few days at one to find out more
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Cold and hungry this Christmas
Nearly half of hard up families who use food banks are at risk of going cold this Christmas, a charity warned yesterday (December 21). The Trussell Trust, the UK’s largest foodbank network,…Read more…
Food banks hope to give Britain’s ‘hidden poor’ a festive Christmas
As Britain succumbs to a poverty crisis, food banks are calling on people’s support to help those less fortunate, including children, who are facing hunger
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