The latest survey from the Independent Food Aid Network finds food bank managers deeply concerned about the growing number of people with nowhere else to turn, and fearing a calamitous winter to come.
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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.