UK’s biggest food bank network to spend millions on parcels this winter

Exclusive: Trussell Trust to distribute 1.3m emergency food parcels to help soaring numbers of households in need

The UK's biggest food bank network is preparing to spend millions of pounds topping up charity food parcels this winter as it offers help to record numbers of families at risk of going hungry as a result of the cost of living crisis.

The Trussell Trust said the expenditure was needed to ensure food banks had adequate food reserves because its customary main source of food supplies - donations from the public - was failing to keep pace with rapidly increasing demand.