Guest Blogs & Blogs by IFAN members

Crisis tends to exposes flaws and issues in systems and planning. Food banks themselves expose the flaws and issues in a number of the systems that should be protecting people from hardship and poverty, whilst COVID-19 is exposing the flaws in the way that many food banks, including ours (The...

The social Dunkirk we have witnessed over the past ten years is in danger of being overwhelmed by a tidal wave of need only made more acute by the impact of Coronavirus. Throughout the past decade, tens of thousands of people have set up or supported voluntary organisations to protect their...

The contradiction between supporting our UK food aid provider members while campaigning to see an end to the need for charitable food aid sinks in daily. As more and more people experience food insecurity - our latest data from Scotland saw a 22% increase in emergency food parcel distribution -...