Feeding Britain in the news
December 2014
Food Banks in Britain: “People Would Have Died If We Had Not Been Here”, Newsweek, 22 December 2014
Food banks: The growing struggle to feed Britain and tackle food poverty, IB Times, 19 December 2014
Looking beyond food banks to dig up the roots of hunger in Britain, The Guardian, 9 December 2014
Feeding Britain food banks report published – reaction: Politics Live blog, The Guardian, 8 December 2014
Food banks: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby urges politicians to face up to Britain’s hunger, The Independent, 8 December 2014
Food bank report is a chance to end the toxic political stand-off, The Spectator, 8 December 2014
Families go hungry as supermarkets send millions of tonnes of food for landfill, Daily Telegraph, 8 December 2014
‘Stop food waste and speed up benefits payments to end UK hunger,’ say MPs and church in foodbank report, ITV News, 8 December 2014
‘Pay benefits faster’ to reduce hunger, MPs urge, BBC News, 8 December 2014
‘Confront simple fact hunger stalks Britain’ urges church-funded report, The Guardian, 8 December 2014
State must back food banks, says Welby: Archbishop of Canterbury steps into austerity row with radical report, Mail on Sunday, 7 December 2014
August 2014
North Yorkshire school children missing out on free meals, The Northern Echo, 28 August 2014
Exclusive: Disadvantaged children could miss out on underfunded free school meals programme, The Independent, 19 August 2014
July 2014
Poverty team gets food for thought on South Tyneside visit, The Shields Gazette, 05 July 2014
Food bank Britain: can MPs agree on the causes of poverty in the UK, The Guardian, 04 July 2014
Hunger and food poverty are sweeping the North East, inquiry into the problem heard, The Journal, 04 July 2014
June 2014
Cross-party inquiry into the increasing need for food banks, West Briton, 19 June 2014
Families are slipping through the welfare net into hunger and poverty, Daily Mirror, 11 June 2014
Inquiry into food poverty, Salisbury Journal, 10 June 2014
Britain shamed over supermarket waste, The Times, 09 June 2014
Hunger and food poverty inquiry gathers first evidence in Birkenhead, Wirral Globe, 03 June 2014
Tonnes of supermarket food wasted in green deal, The Times, 03 June 2014
Supermarkets only give 2% of unwanted food to hungry families and send the rest to be turned into biofuel because it is cheaper, Daily Mail, 03 June 2014
Supermarkets told to give more food to those in need, The Times, 02 June 2014
May 2014
Soaring energy and housing costs force poorest homes to turn to food banks, The Observer, 18 May 2014
April 2014
Gaining the full picture on food poverty, Letter to The Guardian, 24 April 2014
Hunger is a ‘national crisis’, religious leaders tell Cameron, The Guardian, 16 April 2014
Take politics out of food bank debate, says Tory MP as inquiry is launched, The Guardian, 1 April 2014
MPs launch foodbanks use inquiry, MSN News, 1 April 2014
February 2014
Bishop to Lead Parliamentary Inquiry into Foodbanks and Food Poverty, The Church of England website, 25 February 2014