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Above the eligibility threshold of £7,a00 a year after tax, not including benefits. everything even from the day we shop, getting bits in, even the cost of baby milk, everything'sjust shooting up in price. things that were £1 are now £1.10. when it's half—term holidays, it adds, and it adds to the panic as well. you're just thinking, how am i going to get food this month? and it's notjust parents who are feeling the impact of rising prices. tj, harley and ben get £5 a week pocket money. the ice cream man around here is very nice but... called pete! and the ice creams, a normal ice cream ...

And that's what i thought i'd never see. i need to get more food... i've not got the food to sustain this. now, we've got two tins of potatoes. i need 80 tins of potatoes this week, so, yeah, i do worry. have you had a good day? i literally live week by week. i might have a pound left in my purse at the end of the week. it's cold, sweetheart. colette is a mum of two and works full—time. she doesn't qualify for free school meals because she earns above the eligibility threshold of £7,a00 a year. going to a food bank, it's not nice, it's scary. food is going up. it's all right when it's just ...

I've lost about £18,000 this year. steve worries about putting food on the table for his three children. he also worries about feeding dozens of families across stalybridge. he set up this foodbank to help others. these are people who've worked and they've been on furlough, gas going up, food going up, everything's going up and the wages aren't going up. there's more working families come here than there is people not working. and that's what i thought i'd never see. i need to get more food... i've not got the food to sustain this. now, we've got two tins of potatoes. i need 80 tins of potato...

It's going to bolton, i've got a foodbank in there with debbie, the head teacher. he's also set up food banks in four primaries, which mainly help the families who don't get free school meals but are running low on food. there's lots of families who don't have much i so we really want to help them. this head teacher wants the eligibility threshold expanded to include more children and says schools are struggling to provide a safety net to help working families. on an evening, usually around eight o'clock, myself and several other local head teachers go to collect the food for the children. tea...

Going to a food bank, it's not nice, it's scary. food is going up. it's all right when it's just like 20, 30p at that time, but when you work it out over the week or the month, it turns into pounds. i go to the corner shop, my youngest, he has like a little pot with his coins in and he'll say, "wait, mummy, i'mjust getting some money." and he'll bring it down, "i'll get this, mummy, because you haven't got much money and you work hard, i'll get it out of my money." and it's so upsetting. another day and steve has more deliveries. it's going to bolton vale, i've got a foodbank in there with deb...