A food bank and financial advice service in north Derbyshire has seen a 'harrowing' increase in demand during lockdown.
Mark North, who runs the charity in the former mining area, told Sky News the levels of debt are his biggest fear.He said he was concerned for those"in one of those roles that isn't going to get back to work as quickly", or who are"self-employed and relying on other people that can come back to bite you before you can actually generate the money to pay them off".
"That is my fear that it is sleeping there, waiting, it's going to waken and it's going to cause quite an issue in our communities."Local resident Stuart Wishart, who was picking up food parcels for a relative from the Freedom Community Project's food bank, told Sky News:"There are people out there that will not talk to anybody... They are ashamed of doing it, ashamed of coming here.
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