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Trussell Trust

Stacey Solomon

Food banks one of the few growth industries - Vladimir McTavish

Foodbank distributing food

Outcry from celebrities as UK foodbank usage doubles

Food Drive at Asda

Asda shoppers in Scotland urged to donate to national Food Drive

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Dozens of celebrities join petition with anti-poverty charities

​Donations can still be made at permanent collection points in-store.

Tesco campaign provides more than 2milllion meals' worth of food.

Sam Ryder performed a range of Christmas songs and his signature hit Spaceman outside the Dome In Edinburgh's George Street

Sam Ryder performs festive set outside The Dome

​The trust's figures show 1,779 of this summer's food parcels in Midlothian were for children.

Record number of food parcels handed out in Midlothian this summer

Marie Antoinette was not famed for her concern for the poor (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Let them eat food parcels? Banker becomes modern-day Marie Antoinette

A worker at the Coventry Foodbank centre in Queens Road Baptist Church collates donated food items into parcels that will be provided to people arriving with a foodbank voucher.

Record number of UK families relying on food donations, charity warns

Lothian Labour MSP Sarah Boyack says latest figures showing soaring foodbank use are 'appalling'.

Call for legal 'right to food' as foodbank use soars

LadBaby teams up with Martin Lewis to remake Band Aid Christmas song

Meet some of the volunteers at Trussell Trust food banks in the UK

Josh Littlejohn MBE, co-founder of Social Bite

Places to volunteer and donate to in Capital this Christmas

Martin Lewis is urging workers to check their payslips (Photo: ITV)

Martin Lewis issues warning for returning goods after Christmas

Rishi Sunak

Charities sign open letter to prime minister Rishi Sunak

Lindsey Stockton (far right, holding framed document) with food bank colleagues

National World campaign: A day in the life of a Trussell Trust worker

Last week, National World launched its company-wide campaign - a fundraiser for foodbank network Trussell Trust.

Patrick Hollis

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

National World launch Trussell Trust winter fundraiser

Diversity have announced a mammoth UK and Ireland tour – and the Britain’s Got Talent winners will be visiting Edinburgh next year.

Diversity to visit Edinburgh as part of UK tour

Cadbury’s Secret Santa: How to send free chocolate this Christmas

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 21: Volunteers are seen packing food parcels on March 02, 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland. With the cost of living rocketing in the uk, annual inflation rocketed by 5.4 per cent in December more than the Bank of Englands 2 percent target, food bank charity the Trussell Trust estimate more than 5,100 food parcels are provided to households every day. Three emergency food parcels are handed out to cash-strapped families every minute in the UK as the cost-of-living crisis continues. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Edinburgh food banks closed on Queen’s funeral

Squeez back out on tour (photo: Danny Clifford danny@dannyclifford.com)

Squeeze UK Tour With Very Special Guest Dr John Cooper Clarke

Some 25,000 meals have been donated by generous customers in Edinburgh to food banks in the Trussell Trust network, in the first four months of their partnership with Deliveroo.

Deliveroo customers give 25,000 meals to food banks

Stocks of food at a Trussell Trust foodbank. PA

Midlothian foodbank use above pre-pandemic levels

Food bank providers are “deeply concerned about the scale of suffering” across the UK and have warned they are struggling to keep up with “relentless” demand.

Food banks ‘deeply concerned about scale of suffering’ across UK

Tesco at Hardengreen, Dalkeith. Photo by Scott Louden.

Generous Midlothian shoppers thanked for donating 4,321 meals

Lothian Labour MSP Foysol Choudhury

'Let's make 2021 the last year people go hungry'

Cadbury's Secret Santa is returning, and will give the public a chance to send a chocolate bar to a friend or loved one for free.

Cadbury's Secret Santa Postal Service will pop up in Edinburgh

Edinburgh locals will be able to send their friends and family a surprise bar of chocolate for free, when the Cadbury pop-up postal service arrives in the capital later this month.

Anna Bryan

People could make a real difference to their local foodbank by volunteering at a nearby Tesco store.

Midlothian volunteers needed to help collect food for frontline charities this C...

Children complain of being hungry an average of four times every day – nearly 1,...