howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just a reminder that the food bank will be welcoming donations on the morrow at tesco's.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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interesting bit there about the chap working part time but still needs the food bank whereas if he he didn't work at all he would be better off.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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it seems its to be getting worse by the day,regardless of what barry states as a non truth.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/poverty-christmas-foodbank-appeal-tackle-2889020howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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60, 000 people having to rely on foodbanks this christmas says a lot about how the 7th richest country in the world is being run.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Gurdwaras-turned-food banks: Sikh temples are catering for rise in Britain's hungry
Each week across the UK, around 5,000 vegetarian meals are served to the needy
It is lunchtime at the Karamsar Gurdwara, where worshippers are tucking into the free food. But Sikhs are not the only ones enjoying the temple meals. Religious leaders report that an increasing number of non-believers are visiting their place of worship to eat, treating them as food banks while the effects of austerity and economic slump bite.
The Sikh Federation UK estimates that around 5,000 meals are now served to non-Sikhs by Britain's 250 gurdwaras each week. They say the meals have been a lifeline for homeless people and overseas students swamped in debt.
Harmander Singh, who worships at the Karamsar Gurdwara in east London and is a spokesman for the Sikhs In England think-tank, said: "It's noticeable: more people coming in and more people coming frequently. Some are working in low-paid jobs, cannot afford lunch and come here to subsidise living costs. They are also women with kids."
He said that Sikhs welcome anyone into the gurdwara as long as they are not drunk, they remove their shoes and cover their head, adding: "It's not a free buffet, it's a way of serving the community."
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that is a soup kitchen not a food bank reg, the latter simply supply the raw materials for people who qualify for support.
additionally the gurdwaras are open to all whilst there is criteria to be met at food banks.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Introducing the 'social supermarket': Where even Britain's poorest people can afford the finest food
'Community Shop' has opened its first supermarket outlet in Goldthorpe in South Yorkshire
The Nescafe Azera Coffee should have sold in a supermarket for £3.29 however a manufacturing error meant that instead of the advertised 60g its contents weighed in at a paltry 59g.
Normally the "barista-style" powder would have been consigned to landfill - or slightly more palatably - been consumed in a giant anaerobic digester. Today however it was being offered for sale at Britain's first social supermarket at the bargain price of just 99p.
It was a similar story for the undamaged but undelivered toiletries returned to the Ocado depot, the incorrectly packaged Muller yogurts or the Asda Gruesome Gooballs left languishing unwanted with the passing of Halloween.
Despite being perfectly in date and among some of the country's most popular brands, they were on sale in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire today, among produce 70 per cent cheaper than in normal shops.
The former pit village, scene of some of the most vitriolic scenes on the day of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, is among the most deprived communities in the country. At local schools up to seven in 10 pupils are on free school meals - three times the national average.
"We have shoppers here who are young mums who are holding down two jobs to fit around childcare and school and are still not managing to break through the poverty threshold," said Sarah Dunwell, project leader at Community Shop, an organisation which plans to open 20 such social supermarkets by Easter next year, including six in London.
"We have all sorts of comments about people getting out of bed and getting a job but some of our members are clinging on every week. There are so many people making hard decisions about putting money in the meter or food in their children's lunchbox - families feeding the kids but who can't eat that night themselves. When this happens day after day it is soul destroying," she added.
Full story Independent.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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strange goings on from dave and co,rejecting 22 million quid aid from the eu.
http://t.co/H8tfokjRhrhoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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these dramatic figures show that the problem is getting progressively worse.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,854
thought they said it wasnt a problem?
but reality showing its rising
we have a serious problem thats getting worse by the day
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,795
While not disputing the need for food banks, of course the distributed food figures from the Trussell Trust will rise every time they open a new branch.
I find it a terrible indictment that such places are needed in the UK in the first place.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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what i find most worrying is that more and more people in work are resorting to them, mainly due to cuts in hours on minimum wage jobs.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Of course if anyone thinks that labour have any clue how to put money back in people's pockets they're in for a disappointment:
http://manicbeancounter.com/2013/12/18/labours-hypocrisy-on-rising-energy-bills/
All they would do is make things even worse than they are now.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i don't doubt what you say philip as the big three are in thrall to big business and are not really that bothered with people that don't have a "decent wedge".
meanwhile volunteers at food banks and people who donate to them cover the cracks in our society.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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If you read the link I pasted your'll see how it's not the perceived greed of the energy companies which is the cause of higher fuel bills no matter what labour tells you. It's all the fault of all three parties who blindly keep following the climate change meme which is the real reason for increased poverty. The proportion of our fuel bills going towards saving the planet will increase exponentially for the next twenty years and therefore more poverty and therefore more food banks.
It is a deliberate act by all three no matter how much these clowns try to convince us otherwise. Note, as well, as larger companies move out of the UK to where manufacturing is cheaper unemployment will climb leading to even more poverty and more food banks.
There were very few food banks when they first appeared under the last labour government but as their environmental policies really kicked in we saw an increase in their numbers.
Funny that.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
well the 22 million quid from an eu fund would have helped now wouldn't it.
post #91 explains all evan brit mep's are saying the tory government is making a mistake.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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£22 million? Small change not even worth mentioning.
