Category: Food poverty

If you have a prayer or a message of thanks that you’d like us to pass onto the Foodbanks, please let us know. They are all working incredibly hard and messages of support and prayers would be well appreciated.

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Sugar and salt should be taxed and vegetables prescribed by the NHS, an independent review of the food we eat has suggested. The report, led by businessman Henry Dimbleby, said taxes raised could extend free school meal provision and support better diets among the poorest.

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Last year, food banks in our network gave out more than 2.5 million emergency food parcels to people in crisis. Almost a million of these were provided for children.We can’t let this continue. It’s time to stand up and say that this is unacceptable. And we need you to stand alongside us.

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A new interactive map has been launched showing all emergency food support in towns and villages throughout Cornwall where residents in need can access food during the festive period.

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We’ve teamed up with Cube Recording and a number of Cornish musicians have come together to create a fundraising Christmas single. The money raised from your donations will be managed by our friends at Cornwall Community Foundation to support projects working with families across Cornwall who experience Food Isolation.

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This new report shows the important role local welfare assistance schemes run by councils in England have played during Covid-19, and calls for an extension to the £63m funding announced in June.

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The Cornwall Food Access Alliance (CFAA) is a growing Network of community organisations – small and large – that are willing to sign up to CFAAs Vision ‘Of Cornwall as a place where no one goes hungry’.

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