Can you imagine choosing between heating your home, or food? Sacrificing a meal for yourself, so you can feed your little ones? The worry of schools closing, or your child's 'bubble' being sent home, knowing that means the one hot meal and snack they get provided each day now falls on your shoulders? 

Food is a basic human right. An essential. 

To know that essentials that most of us take for granted, are not available for all, is cruel. Its heartbreaking. 

Illness, disability, family breakdown or the loss of a job can happen to any of us. 

This winter, food banks are expecting to give out a good parcel EVERY NINE SECONDS. 

This needs to stop.