The number of families struggling to provide food for their children has surged since the pandemic started, research shows. In many cases, the people affected do not currently qualify for free school meals. But in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, one man's efforts are keeping many local children from going hungry.
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Steve Barton spends his days worrying about food. He is agitated as he inspects the shelves of his community food bank, which line the inside of a shipping container in a car park next to a busy road in his hometown of Stalybridge.
Steve relies on donations from the public and supermarkets to keep the shelves full, but says the people who were once giving him donations are now turning to him for help.
"I've not got the food to sustain this. Right now we've got two tins of potatoes, I need 80 tins of potatoes this week. I need this food bank full, because once I do deliveries it's empty again on Friday. So yes I do worry."
It was Steve's job as gardener which first brought him into contact with families who were struggling to put food on the table.
After a tough childhood and a brief spell of homelessness, Steve's no stranger to deprivation himself.
But six years ago he started making deliveries of food and clothing in his spare time to those who needed it, using the living room of his mother's house as a base for what became "Barty's Community Foodbank".
The shipping container was a welcome donation 18 months ago, with more space for storing food just as the economic impact of the pandemic was taking hold.
The demand is constant and growing, up 50% on this time last year. With a handful of fellow volunteers, he provides food to about 130 families, six primary schools, several care homes and a women's refuge each week.
