All Food poverty articles – Page 9
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Comment and Opinion
Food charities should ditch low-quality processed food and focus on fresh, home-cooked meals
Food banks hand out too many low-quality products – but some organisations are thinking up innovative ways to get wholesome meals to those who need it, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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News
HFSS: government confirms multibuy ban and ad restrictions shelved
Restrictions banning HFSS ads on TV before 9pm and paid-for adverts online will also be paused for a year,
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News
Company Shop reports big increase in redistribution after Biffa takeover
Company Shop Group said it had handled more than 98 million surplus products in the past year
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News
Ocado funds The Felix Project as operations ramp up to tackle cost of living crisis
The Felix Project is expanding its Enfield warehouse in north London with financial help from partner Ocado Retail
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News
Charities question supermarket profits after calls for windfall tax
Campaign group Sustain cited figures showing 57% of adults were in households with food insecurity
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News
Tesco chairman calls for windfall tax on energy firms to help cost of living crisis
Allan told the BBC Today programme Tesco customers were among those whose behaviour was showing the extent of the financial hardship
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News
Soaring food prices causing ‘catastrophic’ rise in families unable to afford food
Food Foundation saw a 57% jump in families who said they had gone without food or could not access it compared to three months ago
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News
FareShare opens new south west centre to help meet surplus food demand
The warehouse has been operating in trial mode since November 2021
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News
Food distribution charities struggle to meet demand as cost of living crisis escalates
During the two-week period of the Easter school holidays, The Felix Project rescued and delivered 3,400 tonnes of surplus food
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News
FareShare kicks off campaign highlighting impact of cost of living crisis
FareShare found that nine out of 10 organisations it works with had seen their services affected as a result of the crisis
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News
Tesco to donate money to FareShare from sales of fruit & veg
The campaign will see cash from each sale donated to Tesco’s food redistribution charity partner from this week until 3 April
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News
Asda launches Just Essentials range in major pricing overhaul
Experts predict the new range will replace Asda’s Smart Price range
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News
FareShare reaches 250 million redistributed meals throughout Covid-19 pandemic
The network has redistributed 105,000 tones of surplus food to organisations in need across the UK from 23 March 2020
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Comment and Opinion
Hapless digital rollout of Healthy Start has failed the UK’s most vulnerable
Problems with digital rollouts have become par for the course over the pandemic
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News
Families humiliated at tills as IT chaos blights Healthy Start scheme
Campaigners are calling for urgent intervention from health secretary Sajid Javid
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News
Asda sends £1m aid package to Ukraine as refugee crisis escalates
Asda is also enabling customers to make cash donations in-store and via grocery home shopping
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News
Tesco launches relief operation to help refugees fleeing Ukraine
Tesco has used distribution centres in Budapest, Bratislava and Prague to co-ordinate its support
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Analysis and Features
The unfortunate rise of social supermarkets: saving surplus food for those in need
The UK’s cost of living crisis is pushing more and more Brits into food insecurity. Social supermarkets and other surplus food redistributors have sprung up to get good food into the hands of those in need
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News
Asda announces £269 average bonus for store staff amid row over pay
Asda stressed it was the only supermarket to offer hourly-paid store colleagues a bonus scheme once they have completed a three-month probationary period
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Comment and Opinion
Why we’re researching the impact of supermarkets on community wellbeing
The Covid crisis appeared to stimulate a more agile response from supermarkets to local needs, says Caroline Lee and Catherine Hammant, researchers at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership