Inside a food bank at the busiest time of year, with a mother forced to eat children’s pizza crusts to get by

A mother forced to eat the crusts from her children’s pizza for dinner is just one of the agonising stories to be heard in the UK’s growing number of food banks.

The Trussell Trust, an anti-poverty charity that operates a network of some 1,400 food banks across the country, is planning to give out more than a million emergency food parcels this winter.

In the last 18 months, it has distributed 4,483,050 parcels across the UK, as the trust estimates that more than 320,000 people have needed to use a food bank for the first time in the last six months.

visited Trussell Trust Kingston to meet volunteers and clients, many