Uttlesford Foodbank's Manager Sophie Durlacher on how they can help you and how you can help them, as part of our campaign called There With You This Winter
Archive image: Stansted Airport staff donated goods to Uttlesford Foodbank
- Credit: Stansted Airport
She added: We have a really nice thing on our website where you can buy a virtual basket of food - it takes you through to our online giving page.
Last year they expanded their warehouse and have access to storage for donations. September to January are normally busy times and last year Sophie said they were fortunate that donations kept coming in. We are giving out twice what we were giving out the previous year. Our numbers have gone up by over 100 percent.
Sophie said self-employed people have been hit hardest and many people who struggle have lost informal support networks who fed them, such as mum providing a Sunday lunch.
30 January 2021 • 12:01am
Stella Kyriakides, the EU s health commissioner, who said of AstraZeneca s vaccine supply: We reject the logic of first come, first served. That might work at the neighbourhood butchers but not on our contracts
Credit: Johanna Geron /Reuters
SIR – Reading between the lines, it looks as though the AstraZeneca plant in Belgium is having scale-up problems. Hence its “best efforts” fall well short of the EU’s belated order.
With our astounding success at securing supplies of vaccines, why don’t we offer to divert any excess UK-made supplies to the EU – provided it cuts the unnecessary bureaucracy on our exports?