My spouse works for a foodbank that supplies foodbanks. Most of their work is coordinating with grocery stores, food producers, etc. to divert soon-to-be-wasted food to foodbanks. The rules: the foodbanks cannot ask recipients any questions about their finances, their car, their job, their religion, their race, their gender, their family, their age, etc. The presumption is that getting people fed is a good thing. That people deserve healthy food. That people shouldn't have to feel like they have to prove their worthiness to get through life. The TT's assumption that everyone who uses their services is dishonest is fucked up.Its that I have a problem with. You can use it three times, three day food parcels. The immediate assumption is dishonesty, the need to ration their resources from the dishonest poor, who also need a referral from the jobcentre. The smaller foodbanks dont do this. Most are run and set up by volunteers. You can have a five month wait for PIP, you can be santcioned for loads of time and have a six week wait for Universal Credit. It shouldnt be running the gauntlet to get a manky food parcel. The foodbank where i used to live you could go every weekend, and get a hot meal while there, people are basically honest and the ones who did that needed it. How with the structure of our benefits system can you justify 3 parcel restrictions, referrals from professionals only with those kind of cash reserves? Also they are linked to the Teachfirs and Frontline social enterprise models hollowing out teaching and social work. I find the Trussell Trust a bit sinister and see them as an arm to the jobcentre rather than like the foodbanks I know run by volunteers. Give your money to the smaller ones they do a great job in terrible circumstances often..