School districts are adapting menus daily based on unpredictable deliveries. Many believe things will get worseOn Tuesday mornings, three Little Caesars stores across Oakland county, Michigan, make 273 pizzas, even before they open for business. On Wednesdays, another 320 pies are out the door […]

While the party conference ponders poverty, the town’s most deprived face being £1,000 a year worse offIt is 14 years since the Conservatives last held their conference in Blackpool, but the resort has been on the lips of every cabinet member in Manchester this week.“Children born […]

Analysis: drop in donations and reduced capacity to deliver mean food banks will have to shrink the size of parcelsMany food banks rely on bulk supplies of free surplus food from supermarkets. Some report these have become less frequent, others that they have dried up altogether. Fare Share, the […]

Exclusive: declining stocks and expected higher demand for charity could see struggling families given less in their food parcelsFood banks have said they will have to shrink the size of the parcels they give to struggling families owing to declining stock levels caused by the HGV crisis, supply […]

Voters in the town’s two key constituencies seem unimpressed by either party as conference season continuesIn a fine autumnal drizzle, families wait patiently to pick up boxes of tins, pasta and other essentials from one of Swindon’s eight food banks. There are nervous mothers with […]

In our new column, in which we make nice things happen for nice people, Khaled Wakkaa starts to turn his passion into a livelihoodIn a Lebanese hospital in 2015, Khaled Wakkaa watched as his wife Dalal grew weaker. She was emaciated and jaundiced. In the two years since they had fled the Syrian […]

The line outside the charity’s CBD pop-up pantry isn’t showing any signs of shrinkingFollow our live blog for latest Covid updatesVic restrictions; Vic hotspotsVaccine rollout and rates tracker; Cases and data trackerGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingBy the time […]

The benefit reduction will affect child welfare services and only cost more later down the line, says Emily Aklan, while Sabine Goodwin says food banks will struggle to copeYour article (Universal credit cut will lead to more UK children in care – study, 26 September) highlights yet another […]

In our new column, in which we make nice things happen for nice people, we meet Marvin Birch, who turned his life around – and now spreads the community loveMarvin Birch has lived on the Kingsmead estate in Hackney his entire life. It’s never had a good reputation. There was a terrible […]

Voluntary sector that stepped up during the pandemic now struggling due to lack of fundingCoronavirus – latest updates‘They won’t win’: Oldham council leader speaks out on arson attack“We have literally fed all sections of the community,” Fr Tom Davis, the chair […]

The planned abolition of the £20 uplift is the latest attack on claimants caught in an unfair benefits system, says Mark Newbury. Plus letters from Jane Middleton and Manuela GonnermannYour editorial (14 September) is correct in highlighting the link between access to affordable social […]

Sophie Hook is struggling to find work that will fit around childcare for her two-year-old daughter, NellieHigh cost of childcare in UK leaves low-income parents forced to resort to food banksSophie Hook, 29, has a two-year-old daughter, Nellie. Before becoming a single mother, she worked in a […]

Of those polled, 16% of parents with a household income of under £20,000 said they had used food banks as a result of childcare costs‘This has felt like my rock bottom’: a mother on child care and food banksLow-income parents and those on universal credit are resorting to using […]

A pioneering project aims to reject fatalism in favour of solutions for those feeling the effects of isolation‘Loneliness, loss and regret,” said a headline last week, “what getting old really feels like.” Psychologist Sam Carr and a team at the University of Bath have […]

During Covid, thousands of mutual aid projects were founded. They’re now seeking permanent solutions to long-term issuesWhen Slung Low theatre in Leeds closed during the first lockdown in March last year, its five core staff decided to stay put. The publicly funded theatre had cash and a van, […]

Citizens Advice says end of £20 top-up will affect half of claimants in ‘red wall’ battleground constituenciesThe government’s planned £20-a-week cut to universal credit cut could drive 2.3 million people into debt including almost half of claimants in “red […]

The links between health access, income and race have never been so visible – some doctors, experts and activists see that as an opportunity for a revolution in careDr Ana Caskin treats underserved populations in Washington DC, in parts of the city where life expectancy is 20 years lower than […]

Created to celebrate the trusty spud, and to raise funds to help people in food poverty via The Trussell Trust, the Potato Photographer of the Year has announced this year’s winning entries Continue reading...

Figures showing one in seven people going hungry in an otherwise rich area should shock ministers to actSteve Baker, Conservative MP for Wycombe and a well-known Brexiter, said he was not surprised by new research showing that his constituency has the highest levels of food insecurity of anywhere […]

Even though it is one of England’s most affluent areas, study finds one in seven households went hungry during last lockdownOn the face of it, it’s a mystery: how does the affluent, Tory-voting home counties town of High Wycombe find itself the UK’s number one hotspot for hunger […]