“We’re paying pack a loan from the DWP of £48 a fortnight and we are struggling. I had to come here [Foodbank] today because of that and on top of this our Child Tax Credits have stopped. They said I hadn’t got in touch with them, but I had. My 17 year old son is at college. My husband has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and I have Diabetes and we can’t go without heating and hot water, so we spent all our money on gas and electric and then we had nothing left for food. Many thanks for having this place open, we would be without food for another week if this place wasn’t here.”
Our thanks to Jessica, who shared this while visiting one of our Foodbank centres.