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Dr Sinéad Furey Paul Stretesky Emily Mann Dr Christian Reynolds Emily Round

Wallchart from a QUB workshop on social supermarkets yesterday.

It is *incredible* how such a complex, active network of community-led food aid infrastructure has developed so quickly here in response to people in crisis.

Imagine if we didn't need all this.

CHAS Graduate Research Student Symposium

Brilliant to talk food, farming and citizens at NI Environment Link event - great to hear Jill Montgomery reflecting on the need for citizen not consumer language, John Woods on our shared mission of 'good food for everyone forever' & Dr Sinéad Furey on food accessibility for all

Just 17 hours left! We’ve raised a really good amount, but we’d love to get closer to our ambitious target. Very grateful for any last minute donations for our work on #RightToFood . Anything donated through #BigGive by midday on Thurs 25th will be match funded (up to £20k) 🙏

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I hate videos of me, but pls make my cringing worthwhile by donating and sharing, before midday on Thurs! Thank you

I found myself wanting to say ‘Flash, we only 14 hrs to save the earth’ (an old reference for the Flash Gordon fans amongst you), but managed to avoid it 😊

We are fundraising to support the right to food for everyone, regardless of income. Please donate if you can, and share our campaign with your teams, friends and networks ❤️💪🥦

Invaluable data on #foodinsecurity , food bank & social supermarket use in England, Wales & Northern Ireland released today Food Standards Agency ifanuk.org/4aMeTO5
As ever extraordinary gap between scale of food bank use (and social supermarket use) and wider #foodinsecurity #CashFirst

💥Deadline for Future Food Symposium submissions is soon - Friday 12th April💥

Last few days to submit a 350 word abstract for this free event in Nottingham on 20th-21st May. Amazing speakers are signed up already and tickets are almost gone! Visit futurefoodsymposium.uk👨‍🌾👨‍🍳

'Food banks aren’t asking to be made redundant to pave the way for food banks by another name. Their teams are calling for a living income so that people don’t need charity.' Sabine Goodwin to Guardian letters
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The Government's own Department for Work and Pensions #FamilyResourcesSurvey data is very clear - the £20 weekly uplift to #UniversalCredit should never have been removed (gov.uk/government/col…)

Today’s devastating data from ⁦Department for Work and Pensions⁩ on poverty and food insecurity - Nearly one fifth of the population struggled with basic needs in 2022-23 ⁦- 12m people were in absolute poverty with 2.9m children in deep poverty ⁦Patrick Butler⁩ theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

Including marginal #foodinsecurity , the proportion of #foodinsecure households on #UniversalCredit increased from 56% to 58%

Pre-pandemic 43% of households on #UniversalCredit reported severe and moderate #foodinsecurity 2019-20. In spite of cost-of-living support, 41% of households on #UniversalCredit reported severe and moderate #foodinsecurity in 2022-2023.

A great proportion of households used a food bank compared to last year but still 86% of household reporting severe #foodinsecurity over 30 days did NOT use a food bank

As the Department for Work and Pensions says 'This is the lowest proportion of food-secure households since the introduction of household food security to the FRS in 2019 to 2020. In previous survey years, the proportion of food-secure households has been broadly stable.'
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🧵Critical data from Department for Work and Pensions #FamilyResourcesSurvey on #foodinsecurity just released. There's been a 2% increase in severe and moderate #foodinsecurity comparing #FRS data from 2019-20 to 2022-23 with 17% of households reporting severe, moderate or marginal #foodinsecurity

This event will be worth your time!

Disadvantages caused by poverty follow children through their lives & get framed as a 'drain' on social security/health/education budgets but poverty breaches the rights of children & their families. It should be recognised as the govt's responsibility & addressed from that basis