UK food bank charity reports record take-up amid cost of living crisis

Trussell Trust says it gave out nearly 3m food parcels in year and 750,000 people visited for first time

Record numbers of food parcels were given out by the Trussell Trust in the past 12 months, as the UK cost of living crisis helped drive more than 750,000 people to food banks for the first time.

The charity’s network distributed nearly 3m food parcels in 2022-23, its highest ever total and a year-on-year increase of 37%. More than a million children were living in households receiving the trust’s food parcels.