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File photo dated 26/04/16 of stocks of food at the Trussell Trust Brent Foodbank, Neasden, London. Around a fifth of Universal Credit claimants fear they will need to use a food bank or will fall behind on housing costs if the £20 weekly Dozens of emergency food parcels were handed out to children in Powys every week during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s according to a report by the Trussell Trust showing a record 2.5 million parcels were distributed by its network of food banks across the UK in 2020-21. The charity is urgently calling on UK governments to end the need for food banks “once and for all” amid soaring demand for help from families in crisis.
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FOOD banks across Bradford saw thousands more people come through the doors in the past 12 months compared to the year before, the Trussell Trust has revealed. Latest figures from the charity show almost 9,000 more parcels were distributed in Bradford in the 2020/21 financial year, compared with the same period in 2019/20. The Trussell Trust, which supports a network of more than one thousand food banks across the UK and campaigns to end the need for the food banks, found the more than half a million more food parcels were given out in the last 12 months compared to the previous year. In Bradford, 21,699 parcels were distributed in the year 2020/21, including 9,051 given to children.