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In 2022 there were over 2,572 UK food banks in the UK. [41] Professor Jon May, of Queen Mary University of London and the Independent Food Aid Network said statistics showed a rapid rise in several food banks during the last five years. There are now food banks in almost every community, from the East End of London to the Cotswolds. The spread ...
The network was founded in 2016 based on learning from Canada and is the second largest network of food banks in the UK. [4] The network's vision is of "a society without the need for charitable food aid and in which good food is accessible to all" and IFAN advocates for "an adequate social security system, as well as fair wages and job security."
Some 93% of all cereals consumed in the UK last year were produced in the country, compared with 53% of fresh vegetables. Key statistics in Government report on UK food security Skip to main content
Office for National Statistics data shows that UK inflation remained at 4% in January 2024, despite a slight fall in food prices and a rise in energy prices. [ 178 ] Train drivers' union ASLEF announces that drivers at five train operators – Chiltern, c2c, East Midlands, Northern and TransPennine – have voted for a further six months of ...
The UK has seen a drastic increase in the usage of foodbanks nationwide: 2.17m food bank users in 2021/22 in comparison to the 41,000 in 2009/10. [57] During the COVID-19 crisis, food insecurity impacted 16% of the population, and some critics argue that government food aid was instigated too late for the elderly and vulnerable.
The Trussell Trust is an NGO and charity that works to end the need for food banks in the United Kingdom. It "is based on, shaped, and guided by Christian principles" and supports a network of over 1,200 food bank centres to provide emergency food and compassionate, practical support to people in crisis, while campaigning for long-term change to the structural issues that lock people into poverty.
In 2022, domestic food waste in the UK was at 6.4 million tonnes. [1] By 2024, bread (900,000 tonnes) and potatoes (700,000 tonnes) were still the biggest source of household food waste in the UK; these were followed by milk, left-overs, drinks, pork, poultry, carrots and chips (fries). [62] Lettuce and fruit were also seen high on the list. [63]
[67] [68] [69] The Trussell Trust reports that numbers receiving help from food banks is steadily rising and claimed that reached 1.1 million in 2015. However the Trust was forced to admit that this number represented the number of visits to food banks, not the number of different people receiving help, which it estimated at 500,000. [70]