York food bank "busier than ever before"
Many families are struggling to feed their children during the Summer break
A community food bank in York says "it's the busiest it's ever been."
"I am reusable" take surplus supplies from supermarkets and hands it out families in need from a shed in the City.
John McGall runs it and says there has been exceptionally high demand over the Summer: "We have had to shut the shed a few times because the simple fact we've run out of food and this is only maybe 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock and we're open from 10 till 5 everyday."
"We've had to restrict it to one bag per family, but they can come back twice in a week and we're sort of wavered that a little bit when we know certain families are struggling and they just come down every other day and we're not saying anything because we know these people are struggling."
"We do feed a lot of homeless people, we make they get some sort of food, either a sandwich or a pasty, a drink and a packet of crisps and some water but it's not enough food. Times have changed dramatically in the last 18 months."
John also says as demand increases there have also seen a drop in donations:
"Covid times we'd get maybe a car or two cars full of food but now you'd be lucky if you get maybe 7 to 10 crates of food, due to the fact that supermarkets are reducing twice a day, a lot of people are buying yellow labels."