On 21st September, we spoke to Sian Roche at Greatest Hits Radio Essex and talked about how August this year being alarmingly busy, plus our worries for the winter ahead due to the cost of living.
https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/essex/news/southend-foodbank-winter-bleak-cost-of-living/
We’ve given away more food this year already than we did in the entirety of last year, so when people ask me what’s going to happen, I can’t think of anything good to say.
Then the 26th September we spoke live to Sonia Watson on the BBC Essex breakfast show, to discuss the repercussions of the Government’s ‘mini-budget’ announcement by Kwasi Kwarteng.
People using the food bank more than once are already destitute…