Levi Roots and Mark Hoyle lead celebrity call for UK hunger action as food parcel demand soars

Celebs including Levi Roots, Mark Doyle (LadBaby) and AJ Odudu are among the galore voices urging the Labour authorities to measurement up their efforts successful tackling hunger crossed the UK.

Shocking stats from anti-poverty foundation Trussell person shown that implicit 1.4 cardinal exigency nutrient parcels person been handed retired successful conscionable the past six months.

A staggering fractional a cardinal of these were for children, with households with kids nether 16 making up 63% of the full number.

These figures correspond a worrying 69% summation compared to 5 years ago, with the foundation revealing that implicit 270,000 radical visited a nutrient slope for the archetypal clip betwixt April and September this year.

Stars from the world of music, TV, movie and amusement person since shone a spotlight connected the issue, demanding urgent reforms to guarantee nary 1 goes hungry.

Speaking from Westminster this week, wherever Trussell was campaigning for change, Dragon's Den prima and ambassador for the charity, Levi Roots, said: "It's heartbreaking that truthful galore families and children inactive trust connected nutrient parcels successful a state similar ours."

"It's a wide telephone for authorities enactment erstwhile parents skip meals to support their kids fed. We request bold, compassionate solutions that marque nutrient banks obsolete."

This week, erstwhile Eastenders prima Cheryl Fergison, who portrayed Heather Trott connected the soap from 2012-2017, revealed her struggle aft leaving the amusement and having to trust connected a nutrient slope owed to illness.

She expressed her interest astir the expanding request for exigency nutrient parcels: "I cognize from my ain idiosyncratic acquisition that no-one wants to person to question enactment from a nutrient bank. "

““No 1 should beryllium successful this position, whether connected benefits oregon working, due to the fact that wages bash not bespeak the precocious outgo of living. The conflict is existent for truthful many."

"The strategy needs re-addressing and existent alteration needs to happen," she urges.

The foundation has launched 'The Hardship Times newspaper' to spotlight solutions and impulse the authorities to instrumentality enactment to tackle the crisis.

"It is captious that the authorities listens and starts to instrumentality action," Cheryl added.

Actor Stanley Tucci, broadcaster Stephen Fry and TV cook Andi Oliver are among those who person contributed to the instauration of the newspaper.

TV big and Trussell ambassador AJ Odudu stated: "We request to propulsion for the solutions that volition extremity hunger for good. Whilst the enactment that nutrient banks bash is critical, it shouldn't beryllium needed."

Numerous high-profile figures, including Bill Nighy from Love Actually, comedian Aisling Bea, Ghosts prima Charlotte Ritchie, and LadBaby's Mark Hoyle, person lent their voices to the cause, urging the Government to instrumentality enactment against poorness successful the UK.

Emma Revie, Trussell's main executive, commented: "The highlighting of this contented from truthful galore celebrated faces continues to amusement however overmuch statement determination is crossed the committee that our societal information strategy is falling short."

"The sheer numbers of radical inactive facing hunger and hardship crossed the UK is heartbreaking. This cannot spell connected and we garbage to basal by portion truthful galore of america are pushed to the brink, near without capable wealth to unrecorded on."

"Our nutrient banks tin beryllium a lifeline, offering a lukewarm invited and abstraction to beryllium heard. They request everyone to play their portion to determination america towards ending the request for exigency nutrient successful the UK."

"You tin assistance marque definite nutrient banks tin proceed to supply warm, compassionate, applicable enactment and proposal this wintertime by volunteering, donating, fundraising oregon campaigning to assistance extremity hunger successful the UK."