For the increasing number of people who use my food bank, the future is looking bleak
I run a food bank in Stoke-on-Trent, and the people who come in are telling me that they’re scared.
It’s a terrible combination of many things – the fuel crisis, the cut to universal credit, the rise in price of food and essentials, bills and rents, and the fact that benefits have not reflected the actual cost of living in this country for a long time. In Stoke-on-Trent almost half of children are living in poverty. How are people going to cope as this gets worse?
Corrine Boden is operations manager at Stoke-on-Trent food bank
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