Overview
- The Felix Project surveyed 4,000 working parents and extrapolated its findings to estimate about 1,725,000 parents nationally have used food support services in the past year.
- Among those using support, one in four reported visiting a food bank every one or two weeks, and 13% said they had relied on help for over a year.
- The survey recorded weekly child hunger, with 10% of parents sending children to bed hungry and 9% sending them to school hungry.
- Food redistribution efforts are consolidating, with The Felix Project merging with FareShare, whose network supplied the equivalent of 148 million meals last year.
- The Trussell Trust expects to issue a food parcel roughly every 10 seconds this winter, while the government highlights an upcoming National Living Wage rise, £150 off average energy bills from April, and the scrapping of the two‑child limit.