Poverty

Image from Feed London's Christmas Feed

London charity launches holiday campaign to feed children during Christmas break

Feed London operates in 13 London boroughs with the highest rates of child poverty, including Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Islington and Haringey and since its launch it has delivered ingredients for over 55,000 main meals across the city

London charity launches holiday campaign to feed children during Christmas break

Santander X UK Awards 2024 first prize winners Anushka Mahesh, Sarah Bailey, Aurusha Kharas and Tom Scrope

Entrepreneurs win award for tackling period poverty with £4 underwear

Trussell ambassadors Levi Roots and Mark Hoyle (LadBaby) meet with Trussell Chief Executive Emma Revie outside Parliament

Celebrities are calling for more government action on hunger in the UK

Amazon's Toy Train will be donating hundreds of toys to families in need across the UK in the lead-up to Christmas

Amazon reveals this year’s Top 10 Toys for Christmas

Ruth Lue-Quee, education consultant from Staffordshire, who says period poverty is more widespread than people think

Secondary school teachers call for better and earlier period education

Sir Keir Starmer speaks at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Watch: Keir Starmer addresses reason for cuts to winter fuel allowance

A police tent in West Park in Wolverhampton following a stabbing.

Watch: Region records highest rate of knife crime offences

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal.

Adults giving up basic hygiene products to ensure family can eat

Munira Wilson MP says schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’.

Watch: Schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’

Story of a divorced mum-of-two reveals dark times of hygiene poverty

Jessica has become homeless and is currently staying in Crystal Palace.

'I've become homeless' - watch Londoners discuss the housing crisis

Sadiq Khan during a visit to Switchback in Tower Hamlets

Sadiq Khan to provide mentors to 100,000 young people by end of 2024

Little Village receives buggies from TfL's Lost Property

Children's buggies lost on Tube put to new use

A woman protests against youth violence at the scene of Elianne Andam's murder in Croydon.

Number of teenagers killed in the capital rose in 2023

Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of the Kids Company charity that folded in 2015 after a scandal, has died aged 61. (Photo: Getty Images)

Who was Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh?

Opening of community cafe at Brent central mosque

Mosque's cost-of-living warning ahead of Autumn Statement

A group of pensioners attending a warm bank

Almost a quarter of older Londoners living in poverty, report says

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

Stacey Dooley

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'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

A child carries a tray with food during lunch-break at St Mary’s RC Primary School, in Battersea, south London.

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles to four million

London Westfield kids eat free half term offer - how to claim

5 mental health benefits of owning a pet

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament

Raheem Sterling of Chelsea arrives at the stadium prior to the Premier League match. (Photo by Harriet Lander/Getty Images)

Why Raheem Sterling will be wearing boots dedicated to his sister

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

Cost of living: Groceries cost could soar by £1.7bn

Mayor Sadiq Khan meeting parents and youth workers at a community centre in Tottenham. Photo: LondonWorld

Cost of living crisis: Government must deliver ‘emergency budget’

London could see a spike in violent crime due to the impact of the cost of living crisis, Sadiq Khan has claimed. Photo: Adobe

Cost of living crisis could cause violent crime spike

Londoners are campaigning for the capital to become a right to food city. Photo: Getty

Cost of living: London has ‘broken food system’, campaigners warn

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

Fairtrade Fortnight: how the chocolate you buy can make a real difference

A charity has warned “underfed” children are living off £1 oil-sodden” chips. (Picture: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

‘Underfed’ children surviving on ‘£1 oil-sodden chips’, charity warns