RT @TrussellScot
A #cashfirst approach to #foodinsecurity isn’t simply a dream, it’s becoming a reality.

@ScotGovFM's poverty summit tomorrow must lead to the publication of a national plan to end the need for charitable food

Read @Polly_Trussell & @sabineegoodwin 👇🏼
https://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/blog/cash-first-future

RT @TrussellScot
Wondering what #cashfirst means? Want to know how to put it into practice?

Join @TrussellScot @IFAN_UK for our #CashFirstFuture conference - working together to end the need for charitable food aid #CashFirstFuture

📅 Mon 27 March
📍 #Glasgow
💻 http://ifanuk.org/CFF

RT @IFAN_UK
“The UK government seems to think that if we just wait for inflation to come down all will be well. It wasn’t ‘well’ before the increase in inflation. Real action is required.” Mary McGinley Helensburgh and Lomond Foodbank #CashFirst ⁦⁦@BigIssue⁩ https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/food-poverty-in-the-uk-the-causes-figures-and-solutions/

RT @IFAN_UK
Join us this Wednesday afternoon for Building #CashFirst
2-3.30pm
Book your place -
https://eventbrite.com/e/building-cash-first-tickets-487925567507…
Danny Ogierman @FiCDee
Sandra MacAllister @NHSHighland
@LauraChalmersTT @TrussellTrust
Mary McGinley Helensburgh & Lomond Foodbank
Nina Parmar @SufraNWLondon
And...

RT @IFAN_UK
“We can get past this crisis for good if we rebuild and renew our social security system, strengthen public services that help everyone, and create suitable work that pays people at least the real Living Wage.”
@PK_PovAlliance @povertyalliance #CashFirst
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-inflation-shop-prices-latest-b2272851.html

RT @IFAN_UK
"Until each and every household can afford and access good enough food, we’ve got more work to do on achieving the right to food in Scotland." @forgetfulfarmer @nourishscotland @ScotGov #dignity #cashfirst
@libby_brooks
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/17/cost-of-living-crisis-causes-dignity-gap-for-scotlands-poorest-families

October was busy, with nearly 400 organisations taking part in #ChallengePoverty Week.

We also joined @EAS_Scotland and @Cyrenians1968 to issue a joint statement about #WarmBanks, arguing for #CashFirst to let people heat their homes.

https://www.povertyalliance.org/a-position-on-the-cost-of-living-crisis-and-warm-places-as-an-emergency-response/

October was a busy month, with nearly 400 organisations taking part in #ChallengePoverty Week.

We also joined @EAS_Scotland and @Cyrenians1968 to issue a joint statement about #WarmBanks, arguing for #CashFirst to let people heat their homes.

https://www.povertyalliance.org/a-position-on-the-cost-of-living-crisis-and-warm-places-as-an-emergency-response/

"...we too... add our voice to those calling for systemic action to end the vicious cycle of poverty."

A thoughtful and moving view of #WarmBanks. If govt shared the compassion of people like @lifecare, they'd invest in #CashFirst approaches that let people heat their own homes.
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RT @ThirdForceNews
"An indictment of the time we live in: why we've opened a warm bank"
James Wells of @LifeCare_ on the reasons it is opening its door…
https://twitter.com/ThirdForceNews/status/1605195065009266692

RT @sabineegoodwin
Food bank managers will often reflect on how they had expected their work to be temporary when they first started to distribute emergency food parcels…And now warm banks @ameliagentleman @guardianletters @IFAN_UK @povertyalliance #CashFirst https://twitter.com/ifan_uk/status/1603329642806616065