Food, Glorious Food....Dried Pasta and Custard

Based upon the authors experience of volunteering at a Food Bank, this critical examination highlights the practices and values of The Food Bank as a contemporary vital institution. The need for emergency food is escalating, with a 70% rise in food parcels over the last two years (MKFoodBank,2013). The global issue of hunger is localised in the rationale of UK Food Banks and a social analysis of this charity is important, as exhibiting patterns of social inequalities is one way in which we can recognise our society’s excluded and notions of a new poor (Crompton, 1996, cited in Elliott, 2002).