Last year, food banks in the Trussell Trust network distributed almost 3 million emergency food parcels. Alarmingly, more than a million of these were for children.
This is the most parcels food banks in the network have ever distributed in a single year.
At St Austell Foodbank we’re working tirelessly to help people in our local community, but we cannot stand by and let this continue. Everyone should be able to afford life’s essentials.
Join us, the Trussell Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in calling on the UK government to ensure that the basic rate of Universal Credit will at least cover the essentials we all need to get by 👉 www.trusselltrust.org/essentials