General Article End of year stats – The Trussell Trust

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Record 1.9m food bank parcels given to people in the past year as the Trussell Trust calls for governments at all levels to use their powers to make sure everyone can afford the essentials.

Between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020, the Trussell Trust’s food bank network distributed 1.9 million three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis, an 18% increase on the previous year. More than seven hundred thousand of these went to children.

“This year has been an extraordinarily difficult ...

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