it s the cost of those raw materials. it s also the packaging materials, which is largely driven by energy costs. we have seen our costs increase by around £8 million over a 12 month period. we can t absorb those costs. i m working all this weekend. i m on back to back apart from sunday. next stop for leah is the bideford community centre in wythenshawe. she volunteers here. during the pandemic, it was a lifeline for her family when her husband was made redundant. today, she is bringing in donations, but is also on the lookout for a bargain. i tend to say to kirsty, have you got a sale on? and she will say yeah and i can get the really expensive, nice body wash for 50p. so it s not worth going to the supermarket and paying £1.75 when kirsty has got it here. even though we are technically on paper above the poverty line, once you take out the mortgage and the rising cost of the gas and electric, it s harderfor us because we have still have to pay
it s really down to a number of things. it s shipment costs so that s getting the raw materials from around the world to the uk that s a massive part of it. it s the cost of those raw materials. it s also the packaging materials, which is largely driven by energy costs we ve seen our costs increase by around £8 million over a 12 month period. we can t absorb those costs. i m working all this week and i m on back to backs apart from sunday. next up for leah is the bideford community centre in wythenshawe. she volunteers here. during the pandemic, it was a lifeline for her family when her husband was made redundant. what have we got? we ve got. today she s bringing in donations, but is also on the lookout for a bargain. i tend to say to kirsty, have you got a sale on? and she ll say, yeah, and i can get, like i said, the really expensive, nice body wash for 50p. so it s not worth going to the supermarket and paying £1.75 when kirsty s got it here. can you make sure these go i
what have we got? we ve got. today she s bringing in donations, but is also on the lookout for a bargain. i tend to say to kirsty, have you got a sale on? and she ll say, yeah, and i can get, like i said, the really expensive, nice body wash for 50p. so it s not worth going to the supermarket and paying £1.75 when kirsty s got it here. can you make sure these go in a separate crate? even though we are technically, on paper, above the poverty line, once you take out the mortgage and the rising costs of the gas and electric, it s harderfor us because we still have to pay for school dinners we don t get any help with them and they ve gone up in price, as well. we saw numbers rise rapidly through the pandemic. thousands of people every week at our back gate. i d say in recent months we thought we ve seen the worst of what we re going to see, and then we got the cost of living crisis and we are now going straight back up. we re seeing lots of working families, and people need to as