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‘The only way we will get through this is if we help each other’

Nov 13, 2020By UNITElive

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…

Nov 13, 2020UNITElive

Crisis of hunger

Nov 12, 2020By UNITElive

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…

Nov 12, 2020UNITElive

‘Bringing both sides of the community together’

Nov 6, 2020By UNITElive

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…

Nov 6, 2020UNITElive

‘All we have left is each other’

Mar 19, 2020By UNITElive

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…

Mar 19, 2020UNITElive

Steepest rise ever

Nov 13, 2019By UNITElive

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…

Nov 13, 2019UNITElive

Food bank use up – again

Apr 25, 2019By UNITElive

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…

Apr 25, 2019UNITElive

Blog: Five weeks is too long

Mar 4, 2019By Dave Prentis blog

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…

Mar 4, 2019Dave Prentis blog

Admit the truth call

Feb 12, 2019By UNITElive

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…

Feb 12, 2019UNITElive

Grinning Tory MPs and Food Banks

Dec 7, 2018By John's Labour blog

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…

Dec 7, 2018John's Labour blog

‘Too little, too late’

Aug 3, 2018By UNITElive

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…

Aug 3, 2018UNITElive

Credit where it’s due

Oct 19, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Oct 19, 2017UNITElive

Universal Credit halt call

Sep 29, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Sep 29, 2017UNITElive

‘Compassionate country’

Sep 15, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Sep 15, 2017UNITElive

May – help hungry kids plea

Jul 19, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Jul 19, 2017UNITElive

General election 2017: pay and the cost of living

Jun 5, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

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

The article General election 2017: pay and the cost of living first appeared…Read more…

Jun 5, 2017Dave Prentis blog

‘Hidden’ food banks

May 31, 2017By UNITElive

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…

May 31, 2017UNITElive

Food bank Britain

Apr 25, 2017By UNITElive

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…

Apr 25, 2017UNITElive

A run on the bank

Jan 9, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

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

The article…Read more…

Jan 9, 2017Dave Prentis blog

Cold and hungry this Christmas

Dec 22, 2016By UNITElive

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…

Dec 22, 2016UNITElive

Food banks hope to give Britain’s ‘hidden poor’ a festive Christmas

Dec 13, 2016By Dave Prentis blog

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

The article Food banks hope to give…Read more…

Dec 13, 2016Dave Prentis blog
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