He said: “We held a pop-up food pantry last month in honour of my mum on what would have been her birthday. “What we then found was that more and more people who don’t usually were coming in to pick up food. “But there’s a stigma surrounding food banks where people think you need to be on your knees to use them. Gerard said: “The food pantry is non-referral so you don’t need a piece of paper saying that you need to use it. “Running a food bank from a clothing store is not something that should be happening, but there’s a need for it that I see every day.

Source: The Times March 17, 2023 21:12 UTC