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Food banks are not only a "Northern" phenomenon.

 http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/10096865.Weymouth_and_Portland_families_turn_to_food_bank_facility_as_food_prices_rise/?ref=mr

AN INCREASING number of families in Weymouth and Portland are turning to a food bank because they cannot afford to eat.



CRUCIAL ROLE: The food bank at Weymouth Baptist Church – Pauline Thompson, Doris Flack, Lily Mockett and Anne Craster
CRUCIAL ROLE: The food bank at Weymouth Baptist Church


 The consequences of the ConDem coalition and Osborne's economic policy, and its effect on one small corner of the Britain in the year 2012. It will only get worse. These "Food Banks" are opening across the country at a rate of more than 20 very week. The time was that many people thought that only those "up North" were in such economic difficulty as to be in need of such a facility. Now, even the affluent South is feeling the effects. Sandbanks, in Dorset, is one of the richest places in Britain and yet, food banks are open in Bournemouth with more planned. The need for food banks in the United Kingdom, is a stunning indictment of a political system which has failed the people of this country and which will and is resulting in the polarisation of British society.





Volunteers prepare food parcels at a food bank warehouse

A link to find a food bank near you.

http://www.trusselltrust.org/foodbank-projects

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