UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers | Food banks | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/03/british-food-banks-bring-in-counsellors-and-private-gps-to-help-exhausted-workers

#FoodBanks
#PrivateGPs
#GPs
#Counsellors
#exhaustedWorkers
#Exhausted
#Workers
#Destitution
#TrusselTrust
#FoodBankStaff
#IndependentFoodAidNetwork
#IFAN
#UKFoodCrisis
#Poverty

#UK #FoodBanks bring in #counsellors and private #GPs to help exhausted #workers

#Volunteers and staff traumatised by relentless workload and efforts to help destitute clients
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/03/british-food-banks-bring-in-counsellors-and-private-gps-to-help-exhausted-workers #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIndiference #Food #Health

The Brussels region in Belgium wants to introduce legal obligations for large supermarkets to donate unsold food.

Eurostat estimates that roughly 10% of all the food made available to EU consumers ends up in the trash. In 2020, that amounted to nearly 59 million tons, according to the EU.

It is not the first time an EU country introduces legislation on food donations. Does it work?

https://www.dw.com/en/food-waste-is-forcing-supermarkets-to-donate-the-way-to-go/a-66444711

#Belgium #Brussels #Supermarkets #Donate #Food #FoodWaste #FoodBanks

How #communitymarkets for all could be a #sustainable alternative to #foodbanks
https://theconversation.com/how-community-markets-for-all-could-be-a-sustainable-alternative-to-food-banks-208049

They're a soup kitchen for the modern age, but with record numbers turning to food banks for emergency support, how long before this charitable lifeline breaks under the strain?

Read the latest story on outHouse...

https://outhousemag.substack.com/p/emergency-food-aid-a-sorry-symbol

#foodbanks #poverty #politics #UK #society

Malnutrition England

https://www.malnutritiontaskforce.org.uk/malnutrition-england-factsheet

#malnutrition
#equality
#food
#foodbanks

"German food banks in crisis"

A reminder that the biggest economy in Europe is no land of Milch und Honig.

#FoodBanks #Germany

https://www.dw.com/en/german-food-banks-in-crisis/a-66244397

True dat! #Foodbanks #MPs #Parliament

"Large parts of the British public are so inured by an imperial fantasy of Britain that they would marry a river turd if you put it in a beret and pinned some medals on it." https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/07/06/from-johnny-mercer-to-captain-tom-the-weird-politics-of-the-ex-military-grift/ #Foodbanks #UkFoodbanks #CostOfLiving #CostOfGreed #StopFundingWar #FundCommunityNotWar #BuildCommunitiesNotMilitary #MilitaryWarCrimes #Imperialism #ArmsTrade #EndTheArmsTrade #StopTheWar #Military #MilitaryGrift

To those who thought jolly #tory Johnny Mercer was a man of the people, think again. #gtto #foodbanks

Food bank use a ‘personal decision’, says veterans minister https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/04/food-bank-use-uk-military-poverty-personal-budgeting-johnny-mercer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“Poverty is a political choice”
Over 1/2 million are going hungry on any night, but hey it’s all good because we’ve got a #surplus
And how many are homeless as well as starving?

#foodbanks
#hunger
#homelessness

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“Interest rates drive hunger”

How Reserve Bank Interest Rises Have Fueled Hunger.

Foodbank “Find Food Searches” against cash rate rises, from Aug 22 to Sept 23.

Update on this morning's previous winner of "most disgusting Tory MP of the day" (overtaken comprehensively by Robert Jenrick). Here's Johnny "foodbanks are a lifestyle choice" Mercer with his reply to the collective outrage (please note the quotation marks around "starving"):
Any serving military personnel fancy filling Mr Mercer's diary?
#UKPolitics #CostOfLivingCrisis #Foodbanks #FuckTheTories

OK, I know it's early to call "which MP has said the most blatantly disgusting thing today" but Johnny Mercer on Sky this morning claims "people using food banks is a lifestyle choice and part of their budgetting measures".
If your household budget does not stretch as far as BEING ABLE TO FEED YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY, that is NOT a choice. 🤬
#Foodbanks #CostOfLivingCrisis #ToryBastards #UKPolitics

Tomorrow we will do our volunteer shift in Poplar, East London, picking food orders for charities registered with Felix. We work in the depot (warehouse), ambient spaces and chiller rooms. If you live in London check out volunteering. Felix shouldn't exist but it does because its needed. It supplies schools, Trussel Trust foodbanks etc.
The Felix Project - London Charity Fighting Hunger and Food Waste https://thefelixproject.org/

#Foodbanks #LondonHunger #ToryShame

King Charles wants yet another fancy ceremony, but he’s not going to pay for it. We are.
#NotMyKing #CostOfLivingCrisis #FoodBanks #Monarchy #Scotland
St Giles coronation costs to be paid by Scottish Government https://www.thenational.scot/news/23627498.st-giles-coronation-costs-paid-scottish-government/?ref=rss

Really important read: ‘Food banks are not the answer’: charities search for new way to help UK families #foodBanks #foodPovery
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/29/food-banks-are-not-the-answer-charities-search-for-new-way-to-help-uk-families

Excellent article by the ever wonderful @chakrabortty and what a clever use of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray to argue that successive governments have hidden the awful state of the UK economy - e.g. one in four employees are either low paid or not getting sufficient hours, and our five-year-old children are the shortest in Europe.
#Poverty
#Austerity
#FoodBanks
#NothingsWorking
#Mortgage

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/23/britain-dorian-gray-economy-tony-blair-george-osborne

Hey, Northern Hemisphere Peeps, it’s a good day to donate money or extra garden produce (and eggs) to your local Food Bank.
Hey, Southern Hemisphere Peeps, it’s also a good day to donate money to your local Food Bank, and to plan some extra rows for the Hungry when you are drinking tea and planning next year’s garden.
#FoodBanksAreALifeLine #DoGoodToday
#ChooseYourOwnAdventure #Hunger #FoodBanks

#IDanielBlake
#IDaniel
#Benefits
#DWP
#Poverty
#FoodBanks
#FoodBank
#UnfitToWork
#SingleParents

I donate regularly to the Trussell Trust who run UK food banks for people struggling to make ends meet. If you'd care to throw a few quid their way, you can do so here... 👇#foodBanks #charity

https://www.trusselltrust.org/