📢BREAKING NEWS📢 .Trussell food banks provided 77,000 emergency food parcels in 2024/2025, which is the equivalent of one every seven minutes!.⭕️More than 55,000 emergency food parcels provided for families, a 68% increase from five years ago!.🔗

Hunger is not a food problem, it is an income problem- it’s not bad budgeting - people simply do not have enough to cover their essentials and this is unconscionable! ‘No respite for consumer' as food prices remain 'stubbornly high in NI’.

RT @TrussellUK: ‼️The UK government has pushed through huge cuts to Universal Credit for disabled people applying in the future. Our Polic….

RT @TrussellUK: We applaud the power of disabled people, food banks, and people like you who have used your voices to stand up for disabled….

If the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill proceeds, it will plunge a further 15,000 NI disabled people into hunger and hardship. Thank you to all NI MPs who have taken a stance and supported the amendment to stop it!

Yesterday was a historic moment for @TrussellUK Together, 700 people travelled to Westminster to discuss Guarantee Our Essentials. The same day the UK gov proposed the most damaging cuts to disabled people, we were proud that so many NI MPs supported us!

RT @FoyleFoodbank: Today we joined @TrussellUK as part of a lobby to increase the inadequate amount of UC. Thanks to @columeastwood for his….

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RT @FionaCole15: Great to see cross party support for @#GuaranteeOurEssentials campaign. Hunger is not a food problem it is an income probl….

RT @Food_Foundation: 📢 9.3 million people are facing hunger and hardship in the UK!. We support @trusselluk and @jrf_uk & 100s of people a….

RT @FionaCole15: @TrussellUK Lobby Day has just gotten very real very quickly- 750 people are speaking with over 300 MPs to lobby for the g….

Food banks from across NI are on their way to Westminster today to call for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit. 💚 Food banks are being pushed to the brink. Our social security system should at least support people to afford the essentials. We need MPs to act!.

RT @FionaCole15: Thank you to @UTVNews for shining a light on the devastating impact the proposed UK Disability Benefit Cuts will have. 15,….

Thank you so much @patcullen9 for meeting Dungannon Foodbank. Important conversations on local issues, disability benefit cuts and support for our Guarantee Our Essentials Campaign. The hard work continues to end the need for emergency food banks in NI.

Make no mistake, the UK government's proposed changes in PIP, if passed, will condemn hundreds of thousands of people to severe hardship and pile the pressure on food banks across the country, which are already stretched to breaking point! .

Privileged to be attending @NIAntiPov AGM , Particularly DPAC activist @EllenClifford1 and the NIAPN lived experience panel reflecting messages- a postcode campaign to MPs -‘if this (cut) goes ahead the most vulnerable people will be the worst affected-it’s an absolute disgrace!’

RT @Sumi_RabindraK: Our latest figures on parcels provided by the @TrussellUK community bear this out - 2.9m in 24/25, still at extraordin….

RT @TrussellUK: Parents shouldn't have to skip meals to feed their children. Families shouldn't have to go without a warm home. Parents sho….

There is no one type of person who needs to use a food bank, & often people feel stigmatised if they do. We say we are here for you with a warm welcome! A massive thank you to our Advocate Deirdre, who was brave enough to share her experience. 🔗

RT @FoyleFoodbank: Foodbank need in NI has increased by 68% since 2019/2020. It’s clear people aren’t receiving enough income to live on….

RT @FionaCole15: These figures are absolute proof we need an anti-poverty strategy that is ambitious, resourced, and cross-departmental wit….