The past year has been difficult for everyone, especially disabled people. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS): 6 out of every 10 deaths caused by Coronavirus were disabled people up to 20th November 2020, (30,296 of 50,888 deaths) At the time of writing this we have just gone Read more…
The next in our series of ‘6 months on’ guest blog posts comes from Rebecca Stockman who works with YMCA St Paul’s Group in delivering Merton Winter Night Shelter. Rebecca writes: I often wonder what difference it would have made to have known what an extraordinary this year was going Read more…
In the second of our guest blog series that re-visit posts from summer 2020, now in December 2020 we hear again from foodbank volunteer Bob Jefford on foodbank responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bob writes: If Harold Wilson was around today he might well have puffed on his pipe and Read more…
During the summer of 2020 the Life on the Breadline blog hosted 10 guest blog posts on responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. 6 months later we’re re-visiting for updates with several of our guest writers. First is from Paul Wright, a Street Connector Mentor on the Firs and Bromford estate Read more…
This week’s Covid-19 guest blog post comes from Alison Briggs. Alison is currently a 2nd year PhD research student in the department of Geography in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester. Her research explores experiences of food insecurity in and through the relational spaces Read more…
This week’s guest blog post during Covid-19 comes from Val Barron is a community practitioner with Communities Together Durham and a William Temple Scholar. Val writes: Sitting here reflecting on the first day of the excellent ENUF food and poverty conference, I am left with the same two questions that Read more…
This week in our series of guest blog posts we hear from Jasmine Le Ny from TLG on how their Make Lunch programme is adapting to help families during the Covid-19 pandemic: It feels like there is something new for each of us to adapt to everyday during this Covid-19 Read more…
Our next guest blog post during Covid-19 comes from Suzanne Vernon Yorke, a Church of England priest in London. She shares with us her experience of being a priest in a pandemic: Who, where, what am I? I’m a vicar (priest) in a small community church (30ish people) on a Read more…
This week our guest blog post comes from Rebecca Stockman who works with YMCA St Paul’s Group in delivering Merton Winter Night Shelter. Rebecca writes: In Merton, a multi-faith, grassroots winter night shelter, MWNS, has been running and growing since 2011. Just last Autumn it seemed like a daunting leap Read more…
The next in our series of guest blog posts during Covid-19 comes from Naomi Maynard, a food pantry volunteer in Liverpool. Naomi writes: On 6th December 2019 St George’s Everton Your Local Pantry opened its doors for the first time, welcoming in 20 or so members who had heard about Read more…