Author: Ray Barron-Woolford

FOR many of us who run independent food banks, the way the mainstream media portray us as operating is far removed from our reality. At the We Care Food Bank…

Humanitarian Angels of Greece face up to 25 years imprisonment AS I write this, the trial in Greece of the latest and growing number (180 and rising) of humanitarian activists…

Rosa Marie has a smile that could light up a room, after years of struggling with alcohol and drug abuse. There is a new EU policy that sets out to…

Whilst the UK hosts #Cop26, Spain launches war on food waste, animal welfare reforms and packaging that will transform the way we shop and the way all food outlets operate…

At 5.30 pm one August, as they do every day 365 days a year, a team of Lighthouse Relief Volunteers monitoring the Aegean sea from a look-out point on the…

Nelsen Mandela once said: “Poverty is man-made and so can be unmade”. This is as true for housing as it is for poverty, for we really do not have a…

The real war we need is on poverty: it is killing thousands and costing a staggering £78 billion a year. In the month the government is set to snatch the pennies…

For the past 23 years, Dr Amir Khalil has been working for the inspirational animal charity Four Paws, which rescues animals in war-zones from Libya to Gaza. 

We are almost at that time of year when the press office teams at the increasingly corporate food bank operators pump out the annual reports and latest figures for the millions who…