New figures released by the Isle of Wight Foodbank reveal 2,319 emergency food parcels were provided to people between April and September of this year – 991 of these went to children.
The charity has warned their new figures do not include the number of people helped by new community organisations, independent food banks or the local authority, which have all been working during the pandemic in different ways to help people in the area.
Whilst the Isle of Wight Foodbank have maintained supporting all those referred to over the last 6 months, the charity is seeing a steep rise in need and the Trussell Trust has recently reported that the foodbank are to expect this need to increase significantly over the winter and Christmas period.
Hannah King, Foodbank Manager of Isle of Wight Foodbank said:
“It’s a real concern that in the first six months of the pandemic we’ve provided 2319 emergency supplies to local people. And this figure does not cover winter, which is usually our busiest time of year.
“We’re always blown away by the amount of support and generosity local people show in supporting our work – and during this difficult year, our vital work has only been possible because of that incredible support. Thank you so much. While our help continues to be needed, we’re dedicated to ensuring that people without enough money for food are able to access emergency support.
“But ultimately, we don’t think it’s right that any of us are forced to turn to any charity for emergency food. All of us should have enough money for essentials. That’s why we’re working with the Trussell Trust to push for changes that will begin a Hunger Free Future. This can change.”
The Isle of Wight Foodbank is particularly in need of tinned custard, fruit juice (long life), shaving gel, razors, Angel Delight, sponge pudding. The charity has asked for festive donations to be donated by 14th December at the latest, to ensure volunteers have enough time to process and distribute these donations to people before Christmas.
Obviously your an ass hole!!!!!
Sorry what’s that? Can’t hear you over the sound of me wearing full designer to the food bank
Go be poor somewhere else roflmaozomgwtfbbq11111
If the charity focused on providing essential food only, instead of things like angel delight, which have zero nutritional value, then they would have more to go around.
Also the title says foodbank – since when did anyone eat razors.
and are the charity ensuring that users are not spending benefit money on sky tv/mobile phones/internet/car payments/petrol/new clothing and also ensuring that parents are actually spending the child benefit on food for the kids before handing out any freebies.
Whilst some, for unknown reasons, have enough cash given to them of £20 p.w child allowance, plus £120 p.w child tax credits, along with their own benefits, and free or heavily subsidised rent and c.tax, with free dentist, perscriptions, education and can prioritise food, as any decent human would for the children first, then WHAT is it that prevents ALL from doing so?
The DHSS don’t pick on individuals because they don’t ‘like’ someone, ALL get the same, SO, either ALL should be in need of food parcels or NONE?
What am I not understanding here?
Such ignorance beggars belief! For a start it hasn’t been the DHSS for decades, The Twonk. Also, food banks don’t just help people on benefits. At this difficult time there are many WORKING families struggling to make ends meet through no fault of their own. Finally, although this item is about children, some older people are living in poverty too and having to decide whether to heat or eat – a disgrace in this day and age.
working families need to cut back then and ensure that what income they do have goes on essentials and not mobile phone contracts/sky tv/and car payments.
if you haven’t got the cash you do not get it – quite simple.
Why do ‘some’ need food parcels to survive, yet others don’t. As all are entitled to same benefits, then either ALL would need such, or NONE?
because some have “done the benefits” on booze, baccy and sky tv.
Freedom, I am sure that is true in the majority of cases. Always a rare exception of course through benefit mistakes, admin error etc.
So to counteract such, then ALL recipients of ‘free food’ parcels should have their child allowance and child tax credit cut to the same value of any and all such food provided.
That would ensure that these adult parents or, more accurately womb and sperm providers, never ‘gained’ THEMSELVES fiscally above and beyond from what those on the same income who can and DO live without such charity.
This way their numerous ‘as yet’ blameless clones would receive the nutrition they need to grow into sound human beings, or perhaps ever more tearaways to be a burden on the next generation, only, greater in number than the first and seeing charity as a way of life and ‘their right’.
We all feel sorry for deprived children but the evil ‘producers’ of such ‘use’ them to gain a home and an income, and for society to just keep giving more, will ensure that these beings, then keep having ever more without thought as their lives only get better from such, so the cycle needs to be fixed.
Basic dole for the parents and photo i.d redeemable vouchers instead of child allowance and child tax credits now.
Whilst some say it is demeaning, surely no more so that carrying home a free food parcel for the children you shouldn’t have had if so very poor.
personally ally stair..
i would structure the benefits system as below…
anyone not providing an income for theirself, which enables them to support themselves and by that I mean – the cheapest shelter, the cheapest food/enough to travel to and from work and at least one set of clothes to stand up in – no sky tv/internet/car/holiday/mobiles etc can make a claim for state assistance.
state assistance shall be in the following form..
rent – paid directly to the landlord/housing association – not given to claimant.
an account opened with the post office and a fixed amount of cash put in it – no card given and no ability to draw this out in cash.
council tax element to be paid/water/gas/elec/tv licence – all charged directly to post office account at a rate which reduces the weekly balance to zero.
food/clothing – a “state assisted support card will be issued, which allows you to purchase food/clothing up to a fixed amount per week from any large, participating superstore – they will charge an account using your support card number and claim the money for the goods back from the government.
agencies such as experian etc, will record you as “state supported” and that means no loan application, credit card application or high street bank account application will ever be accepted.
unless you work, you do not get to access to the financial system.
if you are on state support, you are outside the regular societal norms and as such should not be accessing the same systems provided for those who are supporting theirselves.
weekly meetings to be held, to find out what you are doing to get yourself into work – if no progress then you will be allocated a job – in the same way that community service is.
if you refuse to support yourself – then all state support stops and you are evicted from your home/no food account/kids go into care and you sleep on the street.