UK charity gives out 2.5m food parcels as need hits historic high

Trussell Trust distributed 33% more parcels in 2020-21 than year before as pandemic left more folk in poverty

A record 2.5m food parcels were given out to people in crisis by the UK’s biggest food bank charity during the first year of the pandemic as low-income families experienced what it called “historic” levels of need.

The Trussell Trust said while its outlets had experienced a 33% increase in the number of food parcels they distributed in 2020-21, this was a fraction of the total food aid handed out in the UK by thousands of other charities, schools and councils.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2RLof9G