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Evening Standard
  • 11 months ago
An Edinburgh charity is encouraging the public to donate to food banks this winter as rising food prices, energy bills and Christmas pressure create a “higher demand”.Laura van der Hoeven, chief executive of the Edinburgh Food Project, said that the number of food parcels the charity has delivered has “more than doubled” since the pandemic.She said that from the beginning of December to Christmas alone, the food bank is expecting to deliver thousands of food parcels.She added: “We will expect to distribute about 2,000 food parcels between now and Christmas.“Over the year that would take us to approximately 20,000 food parcels distributed to about 6,000 households.”

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00:00So Christmas is always a really, really busy time for us and in the run-up to Christmas we are always actually overwhelmed by the generosity of the community, both the businesses that support us and the people who donate food to us.
00:14At this time of year there's obviously more bills at home in terms of higher energy costs as the winter gets colder so we have more people turning to us for support with emergency food because more money is necessarily going on some of those other essential bills and in the run-up to Christmas one in three of the food parcels that we distribute goes to households that have children.
00:37There's a lot of financial pressure on people at this time of year and we do see parents making sacrifices and cutting back in certain places in order to be able to have a lovely Christmas for their family and it puts a lot of pressure on people sometimes in order to be able to do that.

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