FOODBANKS across Wales provided more than 54,000 meals to children over the last year - one every ten minutes. That is according to the latest Trussell Trust report, which reveals foodbanks in its network across Wales handed out 146,000 emergency food parcels to people facing crisis between April 2020 and March 2021. These figures mark an eight per cent increase on the the previous year, when 135,000 parcels were handed out. It is also a 69 per cent increase since 2015/16. The Trust say these figures are just the tip of the iceberg, with a number of people being helped by other food aid providers and community groups that sprang up during the pandemic.
Pic: Blackburn Food Bank New figures have revealed more than 12,000 food parcels have been given to people across Blackburn with Darwen during the coronavirus pandemic. Between April 1 2020 and March 31 this year, 12,785 people across the borough received food parcels from the Trussell Trust with 6,966 of those going to adults and 5,819 to children. This is an increase of 1,500 from April 2019 to March 2020, with 904 more food parcels being given to children this year than the previous, and 595 more to adults. Across the North West as a whole, a staggering 313,000 emergency food parcels were given to people in crisis in the last year. A total of 121,000 of these went to children – that’s one parcel every four minutes on average.
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