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Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) including 550+ independent food banks - Ending the need for charitable food aid #CashFirst https://t.co/QbGURFrvEM
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The Trussell Trust
We support a network of #Foodbanks across the UK to provide emergency support to people facing hardship and campaign for change. 💚
The Food Foundation
An independent organisation aiming to present solutions to government and the private sector to address the growing challenges facing the UK’s food system.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
Sustain
Advocating for better food & farming to help people & the planet. Home of @Childrensfood @foodpoverty_uk @RealBread @CapitalGrowth @RootstoWork & more!
Tom Pollard
Head of Social Policy @NEF | Previous work on mental health, poverty & social security | NHS Mental Health Social Worker | Views expressed here my own
Book your ticket for tomorrow's online rally 7-8pm
Put poverty on the agenda - letsendpoverty.co.uk/latest/events/…
IFAN will be represented by Charlotte White
Read Charlotte's Diary of a Food Bank Manager pieces Big Issue bigissue.com/tag/diary-of-a…
Let's End Poverty #CashFirst
***New Report by Delve***
GCFN would like to thank Anna and Paddy at Delve, Glasgow-based consultants. We hope this study can help other Community Food Initiatives across Scotland develop their #cashfirst work! Glasgow Centre for Population Health Glasgow City HSCP The Trussell Trust Scotland IFAN
glasgowfood.net/projects/proje…
“We have had more and more health leaders sounding the alarm that an enormous driver of rising ill health we’re seeing and of the pressure on the NHS is severe poverty and hardship.' Helen Barnard Sir Michael Marmot Big Issue Isabella McRae #CashFirst bigissue.com/news/social-ju…
Do you still feel worse off in spite of energy bills falling? It's no surprise. 📉
The additional spend by households on energy over the last three years totals more than £72bn, according to the End Fuel Poverty Coalition Coalition.
Isabella McRae reports. 👇
bigissue.com/news/social-ju…
Progress on a national school food policy is a positive step towards improving student nutrition, academic success & more, but it shouldn't be expected to address food insecurity.
What would? Changing the CCB to better address income inadequacy. More at: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-…
📷 Online Rally 📷 Thursday 30th May 7-8pm
Poverty has to be on the agenda at the General Election on 4 July. Join the #LetsEndPoverty online rally to find out how to challenge all parties to make tackling poverty their priority before election day! letsendpoverty.co.uk/latest/events/…
Excellent piece by Dan Crossley Food Ethics Council for The Grocer Food banks are now normalised. This is a failure of state - 'Imagine for a moment we received a decree that all food banks in the UK must close overnight.' #CashFirst
thegrocer.co.uk/cost-of-living…
Now is the time to prioritise actions to obliterate the poverty driving severe #foodinsecurity and food bank use. Latest Department for Work and Pensions data tells us why -
pran.org.uk/blog/latest-dw… #CashFirst IFAN
As many will know PXI is a member of IFAN here is there statement following tonight announcement of a #GeneralElection on #4thJuly2024
“My top priority will be to eradicate child poverty, not tackle, not reduce but eradicate.” John Swinney
Our Delivering for Families report Joseph Rowntree Foundation includes recommendations to ensure action doesn't fall short of ambition.
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tinyurl.com/4a9c9vex
'86% of the British public say the cost of living crisis is still with them.'
NEF's Chief Executive Danny Sriskandarajah on BBC Newsnight, last night, discussing the recent findings released by NEF and our Stop the Squeeze coalition partners.
Today’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that the rate of inflation is coming down- But the damage of the last few years remains an open wound that continues to go mostly untreated.
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