Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs, said, “Universal Credit is pushing more people to use food banks”
Food banks in areas like London’s deprived East End where the all-in-one benefit payment has been brought in are having to cope with an average 30 per cent rise in families turning up desperate for help, according to the Trussell Trust.
Food banks in areas like London’s deprived East End where the all-in-one benefit payment has been brought in are having to cope with an average 30 per cent rise in families turning up desperate for help, according to the Trussell Trust.
The East End’s main food banks are at St Mary’s Bow Church in Bow Road, the Salvation Army’s Poplar centre in Kerbey Street, off East India Dock Road, Tower Hamlets Community Housing in Commercial Road, Whitechapel, and the Whitechapel Mission near the Royal London Hospital.
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