Excluded by Conservatives Residents of South-East Northumberland flock to foodbanks in record numbers

 The Trussel Trust and Churches together have recorded issuing record numbers of emergency food parcels to help families through the deepest crisis affecting people according to historians since the 1930s.

Cramlington foodbanks run by national charity the Trussell Trust, handed out 3,524 emergency food parcels to people in need in the year to March, 1,289 of which were delivered to support vulnerable children.

This is an increase
from 2,966 the year before and 96 from 2019-20, before the pandemic. Parcels provide food for either three or seven days.

Blyth foodbank recorded their highest need for community aid ever in the first week in May with local schools very concerned that children are coming to class without having eaten, severely damaging their ability to learn.

Pensioners organisations are also worried as the increase in state pension of almost 9% has been completely eroded for those who saved through their employers and now find themselves worse off through fiscal drag and taxation of 20% being levied by the Conservatives leaving them much worse off and having to scrimp and scavenge to get bargains and many also having to turn to foodbanks to make ends meet so they can cover their ever increasing and rising bills, such as water rates, energy bills and massively increased by the Conservatives at County Hall in Morpeth Council Tax payments.

Labour Party canvassing teams out for the Mayoral and PCC election held recently report that people cannot see an end to this period of poverty with the Conservatives in office telling people inflation is down and that they have cured the economy. Well it doesn’t look like that on the ground and people from Cramlington, Blyth, Bedlington and Ashington feel the pain it causes and they also know it to well and doubt it’s going away anytime soon.

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/cramlington-foodbank-handing-out-extremely-concerning-numbers-of-emergency-food-parcels-says-trussell-trust-4637089