Foodbanks?

kyoto49

Well-Known Forumite
So sorry , i understand your views now.
Its the divide that matters these days.

tell me , are the working disabled more worthy than the disabled as well ?

Can you comprehend English? I distinctly put that it's the 'able bodied and fit to work ' scroungers I don't want to donate food too, not the disabled or the working poor...
 

Perrier

Banned
Can you comprehend English? I distinctly put that it's the 'able bodied and fit to work ' scroungers I don't want to donate food too, not the disabled or the working poor...

yes i can comprehend English.

did you not understand my question ?
 

Thehooperman

Well-Known Forumite
I think they need to demonstrate they are unable to put food on the table. They are then given a voucher. No one asks them to account for how they have spent their benefits

As I understand you can self refer yourself to a foodbank as well, not just need to be referred by an agency.
 

bunique

Well-Known Forumite
To quote from the report:

“British compassion for those who are suffering has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous approach apparently designed to instill discipline where it is least useful, to impose a rigid order on the lives of those least capable of coping with today’s world, and elevating the goal of enforcing blind compliance over a genuine concern to improve the well-being of those at the lowest levels of British society.”
 

Carole

Well-Known Forumite
An emotive subject @kyoto49

The person that you see as “undeserving” more than likely has other issues going on. Yes, they may spend their benefits on booze and fags but if they’ve never had a role model who taught them basic housekeeping (or basic life skills, good parenting etc) then they’ve no idea really.
And who wouldn’t want a drink if your situation is desperate?
What chance have most of them got?

I do accept that some people don’t need the food bank and do take advantage, however, by NOT giving you are perhaps depriving the children or those that really need it.

There are, of course, others desperate to get out of the situation they are in and are mortified to be going to a food bank at all.

Shouldn’t giving to charity be done unconditionally? Not picking and choosing who you personally deem worthy.
If someone is worse off than you, then they deserve our support.

After all, who are we to judge another?

Give generously, give with love, give without conditions.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40431701
 
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Signposts

Active Member
We run a modest foodbank from our community centre in Highfields. We currently receive donations from Greggs bakers, Tesco, Christian Food Help, and two of the Co-Op stores, however on some days those donations can be small.
We'd love to show you around and you can see how our emergency food is used, we have a system of due diligence and no referrals process, and this service is becoming more and more necessary as the UC changes are imposed.
If you wish to help please call us on 01785 223860, and ask for a member of staff.
 

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
An emotive subject @kyoto49

The person that you see as “undeserving” more than likely has other issues going on. Yes, they may spend their benefits on booze and fags but if they’ve never had a role model who taught them basic housekeeping (or basic life skills, good parenting etc) then they’ve no idea really.
And who wouldn’t want a drink if your situation is desperate?
What chance have most of them got?

I do accept that some people don’t need the food bank and do take advantage, however, by NOT giving you are perhaps depriving the children or those that really need it.

There are, of course, others desperate to get out of the situation they are in and are mortified to be going to a food bank at all.

Shouldn’t giving to charity be done unconditionally? Not picking and choosing who you personally deem worthy.
If someone is worse off than you, then they deserve our support.

After all, who are we to judge another?

Give generously, give with love, give without conditions.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40431701
Well said Carole. I run a community project now and I always offer a food bag to the people I see - whether they come about debt or welfare benefits, housing and homelessness or loss of employment. Most of them are very proud and have to be talked into having some food, they often say they will manage or there are other people more in need. No one I see is a scrounger or taking advantage of the food bank project . Most of them are sick and disabled or have learning difficulties or struggling with mental health illness and they are usually people who have been found fit for work by a medical assessor who disagrees with the medical evidence from a GP or a hospital specialist. The welfare reform has caused the need for food banks and there are so many people going without gas, electric and unable to meet their basic needs because of the flawed welfare benefit system.
 
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