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yep, the bulk of the referrals I do is from people who have gone from being homeless to having their own place. It's quite expensive to kit out a house with kitchen equipment, bedding and food so these places become vital a huge chunk of the service users are people like the ones you and I have...

supermarkets should definitely be doing this. It's absolute nonsense that people are going hungry whilst perfectly edible food is going to waste however I'd imagine that if the state got their mitts on food banks they'd start being run very differently and completely money orientated...leave it...

depends on what you mean by 'the church'....the link i provided earlier is run by a church. Also several churches in Brighton & Hove provide free meals

you probably can donate money but it would probably go towards running costs (overheads etc.). The food is either donated from individuals or from supermarkets (some are more generous than others). Recipients are from referral only (either from charities like the one I work for, or in some cases...

not the ones in Brighton from my experience, but then Brighton is completely different to London immigration wise. Homeless services in the city, however, do see a lot of immigrant clients (mainly Lithuania and Poland)

The biggest one in Brighton currently has a 1-2 week waiting list. They're absolutely flat out