“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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