Wages are not keeping up with inflation, benefit rates have been frozen for three years, and the number of people turning to food banks is ever increasing. For most of us, things seem pretty bleak. While we wait for governments to fix the problems, there are people...
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If Universal Credit had ears they’d be burning. Barely a week goes by without a headline or news story detailing its roll out as it steadily sweeps across the country – one thing is clear, Universal Credit has well and truly arrived in Scotland. In fact, it’s been...
read moreThere are over 200 food banks operating in Scotland, with the first one opening just seven years ago. We are all too familiar with this trajectory. The cost of living is going up, while wages and benefits stagnate. More and more people in work are turning to emergency...
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Members of the A Menu for Change team had the fantastic opportunity to take part in panel discussions after the screenings of ‘Theater of Life’ during this year’s Take One Action film festival. In Edinburgh the film was shown at the Grassmarket...
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On Thursday 22nd June, A Menu for Change along with MSP Alex Rowley hosted a parliamentary reception to unveil the details of this important and innovative new project to tackle food insecurity. As a partnership project run in conjunction with Oxfam, Poverty Alliance,...
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