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Muslim Aid will distribute Qurbani to up to 400,000 people in need of food this Eid.

The Trussell Trust says it has handed out a record number of emergency supplies between April and September this year as the government’s disastrous roll-out of Universal Credit continues to wreak havoc on the most vulnerable people in the country. More than 650,000 emergency supplies were handed out to people ...

New figures have revealed that nearly four million adults in the UK have been forced to use food banks as poverty grips Britain. The research, which comes hot heels of revelations leaked yesterday that Britain has nine out of the ten poorest regions in Northern Europe, found there to be "shocking" ...

The rollout of universal credit has resulted in an unprecedented rise in demand for food banks in the UK, according to a report from the Trussell Trust. The network of 428 food banks distributed more than 1.3 million emergency parcels for three days' worth of food over the last 12 months, ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury poured scorn on the government this weekend saying the largest users of food banks are now people in work. Speaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday he said it was obvious that a lot of jobs are being created, but questioned whether the type of work on offer ...

Poverty-stricken residents near the Dad's Army town are evoking the Blitz Spirit by donating tins of food to help their neighbours - because so many rely on food banks. Demand for food bank provisions on the south coast where the fictional town of Walmington-on-sea was set has seen a massive ...

A former school friend of Theresa May, who stood next to her for a class picture, has blasted the PM over NHS cuts. "The whole situation is becoming untenable - we’re exhausted, we’re overwrought, we work over 12-hour shifts,” said Philippa Morrison, 62, who entered nursing aged 18. "We are nurturers - ...

Labour MPs are warning to expect queues outside food banks this Christmas as universal credit changes threaten to push thousands of families below the poverty line. According to Citizens Advice benefit claimants are being plunged into debt with four in ten people having to wait more than six weeks to receive ...

On Saturday night, Christine Archibald, a young woman who had given her life to help others, was murdered whilst visiting London from the Calgary homeless project she had worked with; a centre and a city that has been devastated by her loss. Christine Archibald was one of the first victims ...