Austerity: boom times for the soup kitchen food supplier

The growth of FareShare, which distributes low cost food to charities serving vulnerable people, tells us the UK's voluntary welfare safety net is under huge strain. 

FareShare and its members may have a role in helping to ameliorate some of the social damage of austerity measures but already the scale of the challenge is daunting.

 As Boswell puts it: If you look at the number of charities out there providing food we could expand 50 times over. The need is absolutely enormous