For more than a year, the Slung Low theatre company in Leeds found itself running one of the biggest food banks in the UK

Alan Lane has become used to people thinking he is trying to trick them.

“There’s a theatre company based in a pub in one of the poorest parts of town that’s giving away free food to anyone who asks for it. It doesn’t sound quite right, does it?” said Lane, the director of Slung Low in Leeds.

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