The Trussell Trust have recently published a report revealing the extreme poverty faced by people at food banks going into the pandemic. The state of hunger: building the evidence on poverty, destitution and food insecurity in the UK is based on a study carried out by Heriot-Watt University and aims to help us to understand the scale of hunger and destitution in the UK and learn how we can work together to build a hunger free future.
The report reveals that there has been 28% increase in the number of households, a 30% increase in the number of adults and a 49% in the number of children being supported by food banks in 2019-2020 compared with 2018-2019.
You can download the report here