“I too want to live in a world where no one has to use a food bank”
Here’s Trish from Love Your Food Show adding her message of solidarity with food banks as together we work towards an Essentials Guarantee. To add your message online 👉 trusselltrust.org/message

Back at it today at the Love Your Food Show. Encouraging to hear that lots of people already know & support their local food bank & agree that food banks shouldn’t be needed here 💚Find out more about what we’re doing in NI: trusselltrust.org/NI

What a busy day!
💬 So many conversations with people at our stand at Love Your Food Show. Some people visiting our stand have needed help with food. If that’s you, please find your closest food bank and their details: trusselltrust.org/get-help/find-… You’re not alone 💚

Back at it today from 10am at the LYF Show (free tickets!! loveyourfood.show) with more volunteers ready to help you find & support your local food bank. You can do that too: shorturl.at/cDIVZ

Taking the pm shift at the Love Your Food Show are mother & son duo, volunteers in Magherafelt Foodbank. They’re talking about the impossible choices many on #UniversalCredit have to make using our basket of essentials & how UC should cover #OurEssentials trusselltrust.org/essentials

We are so grateful to be the charity partner of Love Your Food Show in Belfast this weekend! Tickets are free loveyourfood.show so call and see us at stand 32 to find out how you can support your local food bank.

Looking forward to giving evidence to Assembly Committee for Communities on the Indep Review of #DiscretionarySupport , along with Les allamby who will speak to the Welfare Mitigations Review. Scheduled for 25 April, I will be speaking about our findings and recommendations: communities-ni.gov.uk/publications/d…

Jonny Currie, Network Lead for The Trussell Trust Northern Ireland, shares his thoughts on what the recently reestablished Northern Ireland Assembly means for the potential integration of a cash first approach in Northern Ireland #CashFirstCommunities

Kicking off The Trussell Trust Scotland IFAN #CashfirstCommunities event in Glasgow today asking what makes a cash-first community?

Interesting to compare and contrast Scottish activity with Northern Ireland.*

(*spoiler alert: NI has a bit of catching up to do).

Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland calls for the creation of an integrated, cross-department anti-poverty strategy.

Independent advice is so important in ensuring that people can access their rightful entitlements

Women's Consortium research showed many are missing out on help & really suffering because of the complexity of the system & because they just didn't know about things

Advice really helps ⬇️

This is why we are working more closely with local advice providers to ensure people coming to our food banks receive direct financial inclusion support.

Happy International Women's Day 2024 to and from the women at Foyle Foodbank. This group of women 'Inspire Inclusion' every day and we appreciate all that they do for us and others 🩷

We couldn’t be at this event today but are delighted to continue supporting these key asks which if implemented would make a significant impact on the level of food bank use in Northern Ireland.

A good morning to repost this hard hitting thread sharing what people on Universal Credit told us about what life is like when income is so far below the cost of essentials. As the Chancellor speaks, ask yourself: will this make these people’s lives less bleak?

Well done to all our followers and supporters who signed this petition!!!

We encouraged as many of you as possible to make contact with our local MP Claire Hanna and she attended the unveiling of the billboard on Botanic last summer

Let's pray this makes a huge difference

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Rising food bank use is a present reality that should not be part of our long-term future.

Northern Ireland urgently needs a joined-up plan to address poverty.
#NIAntiPovertyStrategy

📣 People are going without the essentials because Universal Credit is falling short.

So today we're at Parliament with Joseph Rowntree Foundation to call for change.

📮 We're handing in our petition calling on all political party leaders to ensure Universal Credit at least covers #OurEssentials .

Thanks to those in Derry that signed our petition. Today our colleagues handed it over to Political party leaders in Westminister, calling for an uplift in #UniversalCredit as part of our Guarantee #OurEssentials Campaign
Together we will end Hunger! The Trussell Trust