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One thing she introduced me to that I wasn't that much into before, it's a carrot cake. Other than that, let's get into it. That hard asset is a... This is Noseley on Merseyside, home to around 150,000 residents. And out of 317 local authorities in England, Noseley is the second most deprived in the country. What's the first? This is the new Hot Center, a community space run by former Labour councillor Gary C. It runs groups for local people, offers free hot meals to those who need them, and runs a social network. So it's an area. It's an area. It's an area. It's an area. It's an area. It's an area. It's an area where we need them, and runs a social supermarket, where people can pick up everyday staples at reduced prices. Where does all this come from? It comes from a variety of places. But if I'm being really honest, we're really struggling now, because there's a lot of organisations similar to what we do, who are all going to the same people for the same stuff. Oh, the first thing you notice is it's so warm in here, Gary. You like the warm. It's lovely. Speaking of curits. In 2020, pandemics, let's take November 2020. Yeah. How many people are you helping? So just over 150 people. Right. In November 2020. So a year ago, 2021. So a year ago, we were just over 700. In November 2021. And November this year? 1,190. Damn. So what's going on? People's needs is growing. This is a solution. This is not a food bank where people get given things. This is an opportunity for people to choose what they want. Yeah. But obviously, you get at a great religious price, but the same quality as you would get in a supermarket. Supermarket, lad. You've got to take this video seriously, because it's really an epidemic going on in the UK, man. Inflation is crazy. The cost of food, the cost of living, everything is going up, but wages. It's ridiculous. Steph's got two children, age six and one. She works part-time in customer service. Tonight the family are going to the neighbourhood's free Christmas event. So basically, this is something that our community put on for our kids every year. You know, they bring sands and they bring the elves, the grins. We're definitely in a free event. It's so easy just to come out onto your door. So this is in Liverpool. I don't know what every town in Liverpool is called. I just know Liverpool. But there's little areas called different things, because this is the second accident that I haven't heard. I'm sorry. No more pausing after this. So for my daughter was her first Christmas, I think. Do you know I went to the mall to see Santa? And for my daughter to stand in line and do the whole Santa experience, it was like $30. I said, bro, wasn't this free when I was a kid? I had to call my mom and ask and she said no, it was not free. I was like, wow, guess where she didn't sit? Not on Santa lap, not for $30. Shoot, you better write Santa a note for free. The number given to Newsnight shows that 86% of single-parent families have reported going without essentials in the last month. Over 50% of those households said family members had gone hungry. And almost a quarter of single parents who were renting said they were in arrears. What's that mean? Steph uses the food hub at Gary's centre. But even with that help, things are hard. So how are you getting on, Steph? What would you say? Surviving. Surviving? Surviving. Is that what it feels like? Sometimes, yeah. Like, beginning of the month's not as bad, but then obviously the end of the month before you get your payday, it's a bad line. Do you find that you are running out of money by the end of the month then? So, you know, you could have anywhere from between like 25 to your last pound. Goddamn. And some people might look at it and go, it can't be that bad, Steph. What would you say to them? Everything that I've got comes from when I did work full-time and when I did have a partner and he worked full-time and everything that we got was, it came with me. So yeah, they don't see that. And they don't see when, you know, when I've missed the payment on the card and I'm like trying to get the money back together out of arrears to try and fix the situation. Yeah, because I watch. I watch that show. Can't pay, we'll take it away there. Come get it. You don't want that. You would like to work full-time, five days a week, but actually you can't afford to because the childcare is so expensive. It's 50 pounds a day for what I pay childcare. It's still a lot. It's still a lot of money for... Man, listen. 50 pounds a day? You know how much childcare here is? For a week? For my daughter to go to daycare for one week, it's $800 and something. $800 plus. I mean, it's single. Who wants to work? Who wants to work full-time, but it's just not... You just can't. You can't do it. It's not... No, so you can't afford to work full-time because even working full-time, you would not be able to afford 50 quid a day, five days a week, four weeks a month for the childcare. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about how you could make things better? And I said sometimes I think, you know, I'll get rid of my car, or I can get rid of that, and not have that. And then I think, well, back to my lifeline as well. That's how I get to work, it's how I get to shop. Sometimes I walk around in the calculator. I'm like, you know, well, I don't need to get that, so I'll just get this, this, this. Or, and then I've got my son going, well, can I have this? And you're like, no. In terms of energy costs going up, in terms of food costs going up, how are you managing all that? I'm on a pre-pay meter. So for me, it's a lot harder to manage because, you know, if I've only got, you know, a £20 body at the end of the month on my left. Wait, what? If the whole gas goes, then I have to... Wait, what the hell is she talking about? Y'all got pre-paid meters? I am so lost right now. What are y'all talking about? So she pays her gas before she uses it, and if she uses it all by the... Yo. Use some of that to pull back in. And it's so expensive. It's at a point where you're all scared to put your heat in on. You are scared to, you know, have your heartburn for longer than five minutes if you're cooking something. One, two... The U.S. administration has introduced a healthcare subsidy program to... Not even gonna lie, I couldn't even imagine. What do you mean you're on a pre-paid meter? I can't... What do you talk... What do we talk... I know there's a meter. There's not even a meter for electricity here. I don't even know, honestly. But what she said was shocking. 68-year-old Linda also gets help from the centre. She goes to the free food club for a hot meal, and she uses the social supermarket. Linda is a mum of two. Good morning. She's got ten grandchildren, and she's got four great-grandchildren. Tough are things for you right now, would you say? I only live on my pension. That's all I have on my pension, which is £700 a month. So I do like my gas, my leaky, my water, my poll tax. I've got life insurance. Food? Food, yeah, food. Have you considered trying to get pension credit? Yeah, I did try. I tried when I first came, when I retired two years ago. I tried on the phone, and we said, unfortunately, you don't qualify, because you're £29 over due to the pension going up. What are the things that you are having to cut back on? Food, obviously. Two meals a day, if I'm really hungry, I'll eat three. I used to have the heating on if I was in most of the day. All round the house, whereas now, I just keep it to one room over night. I have it on an hour of the morning and an hour tea time. I used to go to the bingo three times a week. So now I only go once a week. I don't think that was a necessary thing to put in years. Like, what bingo, no matter. I see you. Data given to Newsnight by Age UK found that over 60% of the over-60s say they've cut back on heating their homes. 35% say they've cut back on food to make ends meet. Have you ever known things? Cutting back on food is crazy. It used to be as tough as this. No. Never. It gets tough. I don't get upset. I used to. I used to get upset. And then I said, well, what's the use of crying because, you know, life's life? I ain't gonna lie. Life do be life and sometimes, man. Back at the centre, Gary's getting ready to go on his rounds. So where are we going, Gary? What are we doing? What's this line used for? So we are going out now to visit a couple of older people that we know from the work that we do. We're struggling with the cold at the moment. So we're supplying... See, I still do furnaces here, like, most places here got, like, central air, like, central AC, central heating. Like, that means, like, I'm in an apartment complex. On the roof, they got the air units. So it comes out of vents. There's no actual, you know what I'm saying? It's more cost efficient. And electric blankets. And where do you get your funding from? So we are lucky at the moment that we get a substantial amount of funding through the local authority. So we've recently been given £60,000, which will get us through till March time. So who pays for you? Who pays for the stuff that you're delivering to people? So we're, again, fortunate that we get support from bigger funders who are philanthropists. The rest of it is volunteers. Is there an individual? The family that have really stuck in your mind that you've helped in the last few months? We was in the local leisure centre and we were doing activities with the children as part of the half provision to feed children with a nice activity. And I'd noticed this family had come for a few days consecutively and just through conversation with Mum, my initial conversation was about the food and thinking that was the only thing she needed. And what she said to me was that she was happy because the children had been able to get a wash. So they were going for a swim so they could get clean. That was her motivation. Mum's purpose was to take the children to get fed, but most importantly get washed. She couldn't afford to heat the water at home. When it's that bad, that's too bad. Not too bad as an old world get over it, but that's too bad as a human race for that to be going on. And I know it gets ugly sometimes, but you can't even put the water on the stove to heat it up. You've got to... Hello, Anne. How are you? Yes, we're going to try to get older, the electric blanket. So this is one for you, which I know we were talking about. Oh, thank you very much. This would be lovely. It would make a difference. Play like that, Anne. Does it make you angry? I'm angry because I want to live in a country where we do look after one another and we support one another, which is why we do what we do as an organization. That's what I'm saying. As a human race, how do we let it get that bad? How do we assist? People not being able to wash their kids is crazy. I remember one time I came home and the building ain't had no cold water on hot water. I felt like, bro, what? I felt so little. Because I didn't know I didn't go looking at my emails or anything. I just walked in and thought I didn't have no hot water. You know what I'm saying? We used to do these things many years ago because it was nice to do it. It was about our community coming together. Right now, our community is coming together because it's facing some of the most dire situations it could ever face. So my anger comes from a passion and a desire to make sure people have got what they need, if we didn't. Dude's teeth straightened in the mud. He got veneers or something? My fear is, what would happen to these people? No offense, but them is the straightest teeth I've ever seen in the UK. My bad. That's a serious video, man. But that's heartbreaking. But at the same time, we as a community, I don't know, ain't Rishi over there supposed to be doing some great stuff? What's going on? Come on now. Tell Oliver like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post. I'm gone.