5,539
three-day emergency food supplies given to people in crisis last year
2008
the year that Exeter foodbank opened
1 in 5
of the UK population live in food poverty
The Trussell Trust runs the largest network of foodbanks in the UK, giving emergency food and support to people in crisis. Thirteen million people live below the poverty line and in the last year we gave 1,583,668 three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis.
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