Charities that provide support to groups and people in need during the Covid-19 pandemic have received vital funding from Barclays
When the first cases of Covid-19 in the UK were reported last January, few could have predicted how the pandemic would unfurl, both here and across the globe. But once lockdown was implemented, it brought with it a wave of social and economic pressures.
Almost 700,000 jobs have been lost since March, causing unemployment to rise at its fastest rate since the financial crisis of 2008-09. It could be said that the economic impact of the pandemic has brought to the surface inequalities that have long existed. In many ways, coronavirus has had an unequal impact on an already unequal society.
