23rd Nov 2019
Written by Glen Bramley, Morag Treanor, Filip Sosenko and Mandy Littlewood
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State of Hunger

The largest ever study into hunger and food bank use in the UK.

A three-year research project carried out by Heriot-Watt University, starting in 2019. 

 

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This research helped us to understand the scale of hunger and destitution in the UK and learn how we can work together to build a hunger-free future.

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