Wirral mother among renters turning to food banks as gap between a two-bed and housing benefit hits £158 a month – rising to as much as £324 in London

Over a quarter of those surveyed have borrowed money or sold possessions in order to get by

Just around the corner from Glasgow Central station, Trussell and the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) welcomed well over 100 delegates to their 2026 Cash First Communities conference last Monday. ...

To manage policy and public affairs influencing in Wales to ensure effective delivery of Trussell’s strategy to achieve policy and secure policy change that ends the need for food banks.

Almost 220,000 parcels were provided by food banks in the Trussell community alone to people in Scotland last year. That’s 600 food parcels every day – one parcel every two and a half minutes. This ca...

It is widely proposed that higher social spending – especially in the form of social security benefits – is damaging to the economy. Yet the evidence prese