Food

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term
Cost of living crisis

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term

Here are all of the places where kids can eat for free and cheap over the May half term, as families face tighter budgets in the school holidays

Keir Starmer promised to end food bank Britain. Now it feels nothing more than a pipe dream
Sabine Goodwin

Keir Starmer promised to end food bank Britain. Now it feels nothing more than a pipe dream

Food bank volunteers are having to face facts, writes Sabine Goodwin, director of the Independent Food Aid Network

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine’s frontline
Ukraine war

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine’s frontline

War forces people to get creative to keep the population fed in times of shortages. Felicity Spector went to Ukraine to meet the resourceful chefs feeding the frontlines

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists
Food

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: ‘Hunger is solvable’
Food poverty

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: ‘Hunger is solvable’

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How bringing back Churchill’s wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty
Food

How bringing back Churchill’s wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty

Inside the Big Issue: VE Day is 80 – but the war on poverty remains
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: VE Day is 80 – but the war on poverty remains

Food banks receiving ‘rotten’ donations from supermarkets ‘not fit for human consumption’
Food banks

Food banks receiving ‘rotten’ donations from supermarkets ‘not fit for human consumption’

Big Issue’s new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening
Big Grow

Big Issue’s new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people
Homelessness

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people

Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste
Carina Millstone

Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste

I’m a market gardener. Here’s why you’ve probably never really tasted a tomato before
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I’m a market gardener. Here’s why you’ve probably never really tasted a tomato before

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition
Lynn Perry

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition

Healthy foods ‘more than twice as expensive’ as unhealthy foods, report finds: ‘We’re in a bad place’
Food

Healthy foods ‘more than twice as expensive’ as unhealthy foods, report finds: ‘We’re in a bad place’

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition

Hunger is a political choice. How do we end it in 2025?
Dr Regina Murphy Keith

Hunger is a political choice. How do we end it in 2025?

Community meals and workers’ rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats’ ‘ghost kitchens’?
Ghost Kitchens

Community meals and workers’ rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats’ ‘ghost kitchens’?

Farmers have every right to complain – but their gripes are being hijacked by right-wing chancers
Adam Barnett

Farmers have every right to complain – but their gripes are being hijacked by right-wing chancers

Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I’m working in a London fine-dining restaurant
Christmas

Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I’m working in a London fine-dining restaurant

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it’s the tip of the hunger iceberg
Sabine Goodwin

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it’s the tip of the hunger iceberg

Farming is the country’s least diverse industry. Meet the man on a mission to change it
Farming

Farming is the country’s least diverse industry. Meet the man on a mission to change it

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How ‘social supermarkets’ offer hope and dignity for people facing hunger
Caroline Moraes

How ‘social supermarkets’ offer hope and dignity for people facing hunger

Home Kitchen: Inside the world’s first fine-dining restaurant staffed by homeless chefs
Homelessness

Home Kitchen: Inside the world’s first fine-dining restaurant staffed by homeless chefs

These interest-free loans have a twist: Pay off on time and you might get money back
Loans

These interest-free loans have a twist: Pay off on time and you might get money back

Universal credit is failing with millions relying on food banks – we need urgent reform now
Helen Barnard

Universal credit is failing with millions relying on food banks – we need urgent reform now