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Three foodbanks in a decade of austerity: foodbank atmospheres

Poverty in the UK continues to rise, making it more important than ever to understand lived experiences of poverty. Life on the Breadline researcher, Stephanie Denning, has recently published a paper in the journal Antipode that responds to a gap in understanding collective experiences of poverty by analysing the atmospheres Read more…

By Stephanie Denning, 2 years11th March 2021 ago

Does Covid-19 mean foodbanks are here for good? – 6 months later

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…

By Stephanie Denning, 2 years1st December 2020 ago

Faith motivations, volunteering and holiday hunger

On 21st October 2020 the House of Commons voted against extending holiday food provision for children who receive Free School Meals into the school holidays. This followed campaigning by a wide number of charities and by Marcus Rashford who started this petition to end child food poverty which has been Read more…

By Stephanie Denning, 2 years23rd October 2020 ago

Questioning the role of religious faith in UK food provision

On 23rd June 2020 at the online ENUF UK conference on food and poverty we hosted a workshop ‘Questioning the role of religious faith in UK food provision’. In this blog post we – Stephanie Denning (Coventry University, Life on the Breadline), Andy Williams (Cardiff University), Maddy Power (University of Read more…

By Stephanie Denning, 3 years1st July 2020 ago

Holiday hunger provision during Covid-19 – how TLG Make Lunch is adapting

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…

By Stephanie Denning, 3 years17th June 2020 ago
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