Press & Media Coverage

The Big Issue

November 2024

'It can't stay like this': Meet the North East families fighting child poverty

Mwenza Blell, founding member of Food & Solidarity: "People are willing to walk long distances for small amounts of food. Things are rough, not just for the people that you know are struggling but for all kinds of people."

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The Big Issue

November 2025

Can Rachel Reeves' budget deliver the change needed to end poverty?

Analysis of the autumn budget and its impact on poverty organizations and communities across the UK, featuring insights from Food & Solidarity and other frontline organizations.

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Chronicle Live

October 2025

Inside the 'uninhabitable' Newcastle council flats plagued by damp and mould

Food & Solidarity members organized to support tenants dealing with severe housing disrepair in Newcastle council properties, highlighting the urgent need for accountability and action.

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Chronicle Live

May 2025

Newcastle man offered flat after months living in hotels fears he is about to be made homeless again

Every day this Newcastle resident wakes in fear that he will end up on the streets. After being removed from a property in North Tyneside in May last year, which he said was due to a misunderstanding about rent deductions, Dennis Cran spent several months living in hotels.

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Vice Media

October 2022

'Helpful' Money Saving Tips Are Mostly Bullshit

Food & Solidarity challenges the narrative that individual money-saving tips can solve systemic poverty, arguing that collective action and policy change are what's needed.

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Chronicle Live

May 2022

People are 'at breaking point' as UK inflation hits 40-year high

Food & Solidarity responds to the cost of living crisis and its impact on Newcastle families, as inflation reaches levels not seen in decades.

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Chronicle Live

September 2021

Life in one of the poorest areas in Newcastle

An in-depth look at child poverty in Newcastle's West End, where Food & Solidarity was founded and continues to organize with families facing economic hardship.

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The Canary

June 2020

Community groups plan for a new post-lockdown future

Food & Solidarity emerged during the pandemic as a community network, and has grown into a permanent democratic organization fighting for food security and housing justice in Newcastle.

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The Big Issue

January 2025

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025

Food & Solidarity is a democratic membership organisation committed to improving the quality of life in our neighbourhoods through access to essential food resources and direct action on pressing local issues.

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The British Journal of Sociology

27 February 2025

"If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!"

This piece argues that academics, as a subset of university workers, must interrogate their own working practices and commit to organising within their workplaces as a form of praxis. Practical steps of what organising might involve and long-term strategic aims are identified drawing on the author's experience of organising within the University and Colleges Union in UK universities.

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