‘People are rationing, it’s ridiculous,’ says Louise, a co-founder of a community project in Shiremoor, North Tyneside. The Guardian’s Maeve Shearlaw and Christopher Cherry went to meet the women who have begun work on transforming a crumbling building into a women-focused support centre in the area that has the highest rate of child poverty in the UK. Louise says it is often women who bear the brunt of the cost of living crisis and every day they are seeing people in need – whether it’s asking for period products, help with heating bills or just a warm space to have a cuppa and some company
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