As the coronavirus pandemic bites, people are being forced to choose between buying food and switching the lights on

11.07.2020 - 09:40

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“We have a lot of customers who are making decisions about whether to eat or whether to put their heating or the electric on.” Dave Breton is speaking on a sunny spring afternoon as behind him a long – but socially distanced – queue is forming across a hillside at the Sholver and Moorside Community Centre in Oldham.

It’s a mixed group, old and young, single people and families but all have turned out for one reason – to get a weekly delivery of food support.

Dave is a support team manager at First Choice Homes, a housing association that is working in partnership with The Bread and Butter Thing, a Manchester based charity that distributes surplus supermarket food to those in need.

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As the coronavirus pandemic bites, people are being forced to choose between buying food and switching the lights on

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