An exercise in hope: The Biscuit Fund steps to help Kevin after his benefits are sanctioned

Originally posted on Ann McGauran: Kevin, who’s living on £7 a fortnight for food, is offered help from charity the Biscuit Fund Something marvellous has happened! Those of you who’ve been following this blog for a while will know that the accounts people share of their lives – at the Greenwich food bank (part of the Trussell Trust network of food banks) and elsewhere – are often very grim. So I don’t get to use the word marvellous very often. There you go, I sneaked the word in again. This week was different. There was some brilliant news for one of the food bank’s clients. A small charity called the Biscuit Fund was alerted via Twitter to my recent interview with Kevin .  It has now come forward  to offer Kevin some very well targeted and timely help. He was left trying to exist on a food budget of £3.50 a week after he… View original 542 more wordsFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
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