22,428
emergency meals given to people in crisis in 2018
2012
the year that our first foodbank opened
22%
more than 1 in 5, of the UK population live below the poverty line
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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