West Lothian’s Food Network fed 4200 people a week at peak of Covid-19 outbreak
Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.West Lothian’s Food Network fed 4200 people a week at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak- and has moved 100 tonnes of food through its distribution centres in the last six months.Now, as a second wave of the outbreak looms, the network is feeding 3000 people a week.Anti-poverty manager, Elaine Nisbet, revealed the shock figures to a meeting of West Lothian Council’s Voluntary Organisations Policy development and Scrutiny Panel.The network was only formed at a conference a week before lockdown.Mrs Nisbet, who screened a video of the work the network has been doing for the panel, told the meeting: “Food insecurity was something we wanted to