:00:00. > :00:14.In the UK, we spend over ?100 billion a year on food. And we have
:00:15. > :00:21.more choice than ever before. Yet, many people in Britain are going
:00:22. > :00:28.hungry. You've got to be joking. No. So, now, four famous volunteers... A
:00:29. > :00:32.bit nervous, actually. Have agreed to help Sport Relief shine a light
:00:33. > :00:38.on the UK's hidden hungry. What is that? By living with them. Oh, my
:00:39. > :00:41.God. Exposing the reality of breadline Britain will be
:00:42. > :00:46.multimillionaire, former Dragon, Theo Phaphitis. There is absolutely
:00:47. > :00:51.no reason why anybody should be in any form of food poverty in the UK.
:00:52. > :00:58.Soap star, Cheryl Fergison. When you are sitting at home, food poverty
:00:59. > :01:01.does not enter your head. Wealthy star of Made in Chelsea, Jamie
:01:02. > :01:05.Laing. It is weird. I didn't think people in the UK were starving. And
:01:06. > :01:09.journalist and author, Rachel Johnson. I thought the people we had
:01:10. > :01:15.was that people were consuming too many calories. The Sport Relief
:01:16. > :01:23.volunteers will aa ban done their lives of privileged. -- bane done. I
:01:24. > :01:27.begged on the street. And join the daily millions trying to put enough
:01:28. > :01:32.food on the table. Really difficult for me to get into my head somebody
:01:33. > :01:39.only having one meal a day. Surviving on charity hand-outs. If
:01:40. > :01:45.it wasn't for the food bank 100% we would be hungry. Excuse me, do you
:01:46. > :01:52.have 9 p? How can Britain be hungry in 2014?
:01:53. > :01:55.There is no money in the pot. It seems to be one blow after another
:01:56. > :02:00.and above all of that going on, you are hungry. And if you are famous
:02:01. > :02:10.and rich... Never take anything in life for granted, ever. How could it
:02:11. > :02:14.ever feel like home? Rice everywhere. I have been good cop.
:02:15. > :02:19.Now it is time to be bad cop. As hard as it might be, we have to face
:02:20. > :02:28.reality. I'm better than this.
:02:29. > :02:35.Four Sport Relief volunteers are heading to a warehouse in London. I
:02:36. > :02:42.think my nervousness is tip Paphitis nervousness, which is the unknown. I
:02:43. > :02:48.like control. All they have been told is to prepare for something
:02:49. > :02:52.they've never experienced - hunger. I always thought that this country
:02:53. > :02:56.kind of was the land of plenty, so it would be really shocking and I
:02:57. > :03:01.would be quite angry to discover a that people are going hungry. I was
:03:02. > :03:09.sent to a prep when you had your last food at 5.00pm and you next ate
:03:10. > :03:13.at 7.00am the next day. I remember being hungry every night but I don't
:03:14. > :03:21.think that's the same as hunger. I packed some trainers. I packed some
:03:22. > :03:27.Ralph Lauren boots. They will be guided by lily ka pran any of the
:03:28. > :03:33.Children's Society and community worker, Craig Last -- Lily Caprani
:03:34. > :03:38.When people say they don't believe people are hungry in this country I
:03:39. > :03:43.say they need to open their eyes and look at the facts.
:03:44. > :03:46.Hello. Hi. Hello. Thank you for being here. The reason you are here
:03:47. > :03:52.is we have a new crisis brewing in the UK. In the last five years, food
:03:53. > :03:56.prices have gone up but at the same time, wages are static. That's come
:03:57. > :03:59.at the same time as austerity. Which means that some benefits are
:04:00. > :04:03.reducing and the most vulnerable people, living on the breadline are
:04:04. > :04:06.those that are finding their pockets squeezed. We are actually seeing an
:04:07. > :04:10.increase in the number of families around the country that are really
:04:11. > :04:18.struggling to even put a decent meal on the table. Are there any families
:04:19. > :04:22.in which the responsibility adults are failing to feed the children?
:04:23. > :04:25.How many families don't care about feeding their children a decent
:04:26. > :04:29.diet? I don't know but I know children are taken into care and
:04:30. > :04:34.that's one of the reasons. It is not as clear-cut as you might think it
:04:35. > :04:40.is. What approximate if we go into a family and we find instead spending
:04:41. > :04:44.money on food they are spending it on cigarettes, alcohol and satellite
:04:45. > :04:47.TV. That's what we want it find out. The reason we are putting you out
:04:48. > :04:52.there is because you have privileged lives. The kind of problems these
:04:53. > :05:00.people experience, you don't. You are make making asumptions. My
:05:01. > :05:04.parents received benefits. I got free school uniforms and dinners.
:05:05. > :05:07.What would your family spend on food a month? An inordinate amount. We
:05:08. > :05:12.appreciate the fact we no longer have to count the pennies. Answer
:05:13. > :05:16.the question? I wouldn't have a clue. Rachel, in Notting Hill, would
:05:17. > :05:20.you say you see the effects of hunger? Yes, I do, most women are
:05:21. > :05:24.starving themselves in order to be thin in the noing hill. They will
:05:25. > :05:31.pay thousands of pounds to sit in a Spa hoe knell a lake in Austria to
:05:32. > :05:37.eat gruel and dry bread. What is the most you have spent on a night out
:05:38. > :05:44.-- in a Spa hotel. I don't know, I would say, maybe, thousands.
:05:45. > :05:50.?16,000. Probably a few thousand. But their privileged lives are now
:05:51. > :05:54.over. Does anybody have any food? OK, can we take it from you? These
:05:55. > :06:00.families have been really brave to open up and share their lives with
:06:01. > :06:06.you. We won't want any cheating. Have I got to give you everything?
:06:07. > :06:14.Everything. Thank you. We don't want you to take wallets or phones. Theo,
:06:15. > :06:22.if I could take yours? I bet yours is heavy. How much money is in
:06:23. > :06:28.there? About ?725. Cheryl? Snoonchts are you going to take the whole lot?
:06:29. > :06:35.Roughly how much cash is there? ?300-odd. I don't know. ?about ?70.
:06:36. > :06:39.All #24e8 be left with is what their host families say they can afford to
:06:40. > :06:46.spend on food, perperson, per day. -- all they will be left with. How
:06:47. > :06:54.much is there? ?3. For how long? Three days. You have got to be
:06:55. > :06:59.joking. No. ?3. 21. ?3. 15. If I'm honest, a smoothie up the
:07:00. > :07:04.road costs more than that. I don't understand how... That is he a one
:07:05. > :07:09.cup of coffee in Starbucks. I'm not sure anybody is going to be thinking
:07:10. > :07:19.I can survive on ?2. 28 for three days.
:07:20. > :07:32.All the Sport Relief volunteers have is their food budget and an address.
:07:33. > :07:39.?3. 15 for three days. 3 pods. 15! It's all very well --
:07:40. > :07:43.?3. 15. It is all very well me telling them and them reading about
:07:44. > :07:47.it, but it is not until they of live in the family's homes that they'll
:07:48. > :07:51.understand what it feels like. It could be a council house, no
:07:52. > :07:59.heating, electricity metre. Look, they have all got satellite dishes.
:08:00. > :08:09.Theo has been sent to Barnett in north London.
:08:10. > :08:21.First impressions, all looks good. Very smart, very clean. A bit
:08:22. > :08:30.nervous, actually. I don't know what to say. Confidence is not something
:08:31. > :08:35.that Theo usual lilacs. I'll give shall usually lacks. I'll give you
:08:36. > :08:40.?100,000. He is married with three children. He is ploughed of his
:08:41. > :08:45.working class roots and what he has managed to achieve. The whole of our
:08:46. > :08:49.lives until I was nine or ten really was living hand-to-mouth. Will I be
:08:50. > :08:59.able to cope with that again, after leading the life I have lived since?
:09:00. > :09:06.I don't know. I am out. Hello. Oh my God. Hello. Welcome, welcome. Well,
:09:07. > :09:14.that's some welcome. Is she always this excited? No. You are the man
:09:15. > :09:20.who says to people - how much do you want for this? I'm Theo. Good to
:09:21. > :09:26.meet you. What is your name Ida. What is your name? Amelia. Good to
:09:27. > :09:32.meet you too. How old are you? Eight. I'm a lot, lot older. Good to
:09:33. > :09:38.meet you. Where were you born? Ethiopia. OK. I have been there. I
:09:39. > :09:42.was born in Cyprus, a little island in the Mediterranean. I came over
:09:43. > :09:52.when I was six. When did you come over? In 1984. In In Ethiopia
:09:53. > :09:57.agraduated as airline hostess but I had not a nice experience in my
:09:58. > :10:02.country. You have been there. Ida was given asylum in the UK and
:10:03. > :10:06.worked full time until she became pregnant with Amelia. I couldn't
:10:07. > :10:16.have children and she's my miracle child. Miracle. I was 41. Ida works
:10:17. > :10:21.part-time and earns ?106 a week. She gets no financial help from Amelia's
:10:22. > :10:32.father. Maybe I could be better off not working, but I have no role
:10:33. > :10:37.model for my girl. We have everything. If you need it, let me
:10:38. > :10:41.know, I'll get T she is my life. Everything goes around her
:10:42. > :10:46.well-being. She brightens my life. That's her bedroom. So she has given
:10:47. > :10:50.you her bedroom. This is a lovely room. She has emptied that cupboard
:10:51. > :10:58.for you so you can put your clothes in here. Ida spends less than ?11 a
:10:59. > :11:02.week on food. This is our kitchen. There are times I feel dizzy. You
:11:03. > :11:10.have this migraine and you know it is hunger. She always lets me eat.
:11:11. > :11:15.Like she doesn't eat any food for the rest of the day. And then I give
:11:16. > :11:20.her - I leave leftovers on purpose and I keep tricking her saying it is
:11:21. > :11:27.by accident because she doesn't have anything to eat. So you are telling
:11:28. > :11:35.me, if she eats, you don't eat? Yeah, she tricks me and I trick her.
:11:36. > :11:44.So between you, one of you eats, the other one doesn't eat, basically.
:11:45. > :11:49.It's a little bit immediate, isn't it? All those things you spoke
:11:50. > :11:50.about, in the first few minutes of meeting everyone, it's quite
:11:51. > :12:12.disturbing. Quite disturbing. 20 miles away in Croydon... Is that
:12:13. > :12:18.them Good evening. Hello. I'm Jamie, lovely to meet you. Carly. You know
:12:19. > :12:26.my face. This is Jessica. Nice to meet you. This is Lily. I swear I
:12:27. > :12:31.know who you are. I don't know the name. It's you had a Made in
:12:32. > :12:39.Chelsea. Yeah. I'm going to come and live with you, if that's OK. What do
:12:40. > :12:44.you think girls? Jamie was set to hipper it a multimillion pound
:12:45. > :12:50.fortune long before he set foot on the screen. I take so much for
:12:51. > :12:54.granted, heating mobiles, food. I take everything for granted, it is
:12:55. > :12:58.just there. His mother agrees. You go into a supermarket and think -
:12:59. > :13:03.I'll have a bagel and smoke salmon today. You have never, ever had to
:13:04. > :13:07.struggle. It'll bring you down to earth.
:13:08. > :13:14.Snool I want it buy something I, I buy it. If I take a girl out to
:13:15. > :13:21.dinner, you are spending ?200, ?300 quid for dinner. Jamie will now be
:13:22. > :13:27.living in a two-bedroomed terrace house in Croydon with 40-year-old
:13:28. > :13:31.single mum, Carly. Carly relies on benefits and spends just under ?30 a
:13:32. > :13:36.week on food for the whole family. You want to go and show me the
:13:37. > :13:41.bedroom now? She gets little financial help from her children's
:13:42. > :13:45.fathers. Do the girls get to eat refer I day? Yes. I always make sure
:13:46. > :13:49.there is something. Clever concoctions, clever cooking. I can
:13:50. > :13:56.go without the odd meal but I will not have these going without. To
:13:57. > :14:01.actually see my mum not eating is kind of upsetting. Because I
:14:02. > :14:06.sometimes have to say - mum I'm not hungry, have my dinner, because she
:14:07. > :14:15.is getting shrink and shrink and sh ring and she'll end up like a
:14:16. > :14:21.lollipop stick. Jamie decides to part with his money. Wicked. I will
:14:22. > :14:26.put that in the purse. Think I have ?2 left. That's everything I have in
:14:27. > :14:31.the whole wide world. I'm going to be so brutally honest with you. I
:14:32. > :14:37.had break toast at a place called Bluebird cafe. The bill came to ?25.
:14:38. > :14:45.-- I had breakfast. I cannot imagine how tough it is going to be.
:14:46. > :14:57.Hello. Oh my word. Cheryl will be living with 49-year-old Paul in
:14:58. > :15:01.Grantham, Lincolnshire. Is there any chance of a cup of tea? I'm being
:15:02. > :15:11.really, kind of like, cheeky, I know. I might push a biscuit. I'm so
:15:12. > :15:16.sorry. Mum of one, Cheryl learned to laugh
:15:17. > :15:19.at adversity growing newspaper London's East End. We were very
:15:20. > :15:22.working class. There wasn't a lot of money around. Sometimes you would
:15:23. > :15:27.dodge the milk man a couple of weeks. I know sometimes my parents
:15:28. > :15:32.went without food to feed us. I know that. Now one of Britain's most
:15:33. > :15:35.recognisable soap stars, food poverty is something she has left
:15:36. > :15:38.behind and thinks the rest of the country should have done too. You
:15:39. > :15:42.can look at Africa and other countries around the world and you
:15:43. > :15:47.can see what is going on. If it is happening on my own doorstep, that's
:15:48. > :15:54.shocking. Um, have you eaten yet? Not today,
:15:55. > :16:00.no. Are you going to eat today, at some point? Probably, why are you
:16:01. > :16:04.hungry? Sorry, I can't - I'm comprehending here you are telling
:16:05. > :16:08.me you haven't eaten today. No. Why don't you make something to eat
:16:09. > :16:18.then? Because I haven't got anything. OK. Do you like milk? How
:16:19. > :16:26.long has this to last you for? Another week now. Paul spends less
:16:27. > :16:31.than ?8 a week on food. It's really difficult for me to get
:16:32. > :16:37.into my head somebody only have one meal a day. So, what are you having?
:16:38. > :16:45.I might just have chicken soup. What, just the soup? Yes.
:16:46. > :16:48.In Deptford, south-east London, chicken soup isn't the only thing on
:16:49. > :16:53.the menu for journalist Rachel Johnson. She is staying with
:16:54. > :16:58.approximate 53-year-old widow De, and her daughters, Dianne and Chloe.
:16:59. > :17:04.Have you made this chicken soup? Yes, this is how we find out. She
:17:05. > :17:11.mixed the in. Usually it has sweetcorn. With you we don't have
:17:12. > :17:14.any. That's a shame. I would like sweetcorn and grated Cheddar. We
:17:15. > :17:19.have some cheese. My friend who works in a factory. That's great.
:17:20. > :17:25.Every so often, I get a little package. It is a cheese-fest. At
:17:26. > :17:30.home in her four-bedroom house in Notting Hill. Dinner for mum of
:17:31. > :17:35.three Rachel rarely involves bootleg cheese. I love delicious food. I'm
:17:36. > :17:39.used to a life that I get what I want when I want it? Why have
:17:40. > :17:46.aagreed to do this? I'm a journal Is, I need to see what is going on.
:17:47. > :17:52.What wine do you think you are going to be drinking this week? My husband
:17:53. > :17:54.says I lack empathy. The Princess will learn to live in the
:17:55. > :18:00.non-Princess world. I think it will be very interesting. Can I do
:18:01. > :18:04.anything? ? Dee's financial problems began when she lost her husband in
:18:05. > :18:11.2008 and two years ago she suffered a stroke. She budgets ?21 a we can
:18:12. > :18:15.for food. We can't afford the fruit and veg. It is frozen or out of a
:18:16. > :18:21.tin. Can I look through your cupboards and see what you have got
:18:22. > :18:28.food-wise? Cereal, onions, dog food. What is that? A Swiss roll. Is that
:18:29. > :18:34.past its... I don't know. She is a widow with two dependant children.
:18:35. > :18:38.Actually, what she is bringing them up on, chicken soup and pasta and
:18:39. > :18:43.frankfurter supper is not really enough to maintain her own health. I
:18:44. > :18:45.can't say that I think it is going to be very easy for me the next
:18:46. > :18:57.week. Four British households. I'm hungry,
:18:58. > :19:03.are you hungry? Now have an extra mouth to feed. . All of a sudden
:19:04. > :19:10.I've got no appetite whatsoever. It cost ?1. So that's like ?50 woerted
:19:11. > :19:17.of potatoes. -- worth. Everything is down to the penny,
:19:18. > :19:22.literally, which is exhausting. That's probably 20 pction's worth.
:19:23. > :19:27.If the washing machine breaks or the Aga - well not the Aga, but what do
:19:28. > :19:32.you do? What do you think? Really good. The cheese makes it. Nearly
:19:33. > :19:42.everyone has been fed but Paul hadn't planned on catering for a
:19:43. > :19:48.vegetarian. He has managed to rustle something up for Cheryl. That's all
:19:49. > :19:55.right man, cool. I'm used to making something out of nothing myself
:19:56. > :19:59.but... What I'm trying to work out why is there no food in your
:20:00. > :20:03.cupboards. Do you work? No. OK, so you are on benefit. On benefits at
:20:04. > :20:08.the moment. Is that because you don't want to work? No, I want to
:20:09. > :20:17.work but I can't work because of my health because two years back I had
:20:18. > :20:23.what is called a spn Tyne Tynous phneumo this, horax? What That's
:20:24. > :20:28.what I said. Paul suffered a poll appsed lung and was forced to give
:20:29. > :20:34.up the painting and decorating job he had. I aplayed for lofts things
:20:35. > :20:39.but when it gets to my health, they don't want to know. Do you mind me
:20:40. > :20:48.asking what you learned before Take-home ?700. How much noweds ?50.
:20:49. > :20:55.50 a week. What? ?50. 50 a week. What douse it to you as a person I
:20:56. > :20:59.have no self-esteem. When I walk out this door, when I hold my head up,
:21:00. > :21:04.people don't know nothing, I don't tell them. Paul has eight grown-up
:21:05. > :21:08.children. My family are not fully aware of my situation because I'm a
:21:09. > :21:13.proud dad. I have always worked for what I've got. They think I'm doing
:21:14. > :21:16.all right. They think I've got a nice little place and they think
:21:17. > :21:22.everything is fine. Suddenly, there is an ultimaty crunch from
:21:23. > :21:25.downstairs and the hoover stopped... It is the end of the first day with
:21:26. > :21:30.Britain's hidden hungry. At this point in the evening usually I will
:21:31. > :21:34.be thinking - I'm peckish, I wonder what I'll have to eat. I know I'll
:21:35. > :21:40.go downstairs and there is a ?1 Swiss roll is that bad for me anyway
:21:41. > :21:45.and this is' really is until breakfast -- and that's really it
:21:46. > :21:51.until breakfast when I have spotted some cornflakes. To think I would
:21:52. > :21:59.open the fridge and cut off a chunk of Parmesan and eat an avocado. This
:22:00. > :22:03.is a lovely street in suburbia. You don't expect this poverty behind
:22:04. > :22:29.these walls. It doesn't make sense. It really doesn't.
:22:30. > :22:36.You are a nice guy. Am I a nice guy It is the Sport Relief volunteers
:22:37. > :22:43.first morning with their host families.
:22:44. > :22:56.You have a lot of protein there. You like branflakes. Theo is up early
:22:57. > :23:03.spending his food budget. Four points - ?1. 45. There is not a lot
:23:04. > :23:08.left of my ?2. 28. Do you have breakfast? Not really. If you
:23:09. > :23:12.haven't got anything, you make your body get used to not having
:23:13. > :23:23.breakfast. I always say I will keep it for her. This is my breakfast.
:23:24. > :23:39.Don't eat me. There will be no more if she does that.
:23:40. > :23:43.Off we go. God bless. See you later. Her focus as you can see is Amelia.
:23:44. > :23:48.She won't let her go without anything. It doesn't matter if she
:23:49. > :23:54.hasn't got it, she'll find it. It doesn't matter, if she wants it,
:23:55. > :23:58.she'll find it for her. In Grantham, Cheryl hasn't had any
:23:59. > :24:07.breakfast. By now, I would have eaten maybe some cereal and boil
:24:08. > :24:14.eggs inane a couple of coffees and a couple of digestive biscuits. --
:24:15. > :24:20.boil eggs and a couple of coffees. No hot water. It is freezing. Paul,
:24:21. > :24:27.no hot water. It is turned off because it costs too much. So, there
:24:28. > :24:35.is no hot water? I normally get a strip wash at the sink. Hot running
:24:36. > :24:41.water. Also saves money by only heating the living room of his
:24:42. > :24:51.one-bedroomed flat. If you hear strange noises, it is me. When ball
:24:52. > :24:55.was forced to stop work, he ran up an electricity debt. The electricity
:24:56. > :25:00.company put in a metre and forces him to pay back some of the debt per
:25:01. > :25:06.week. I have to pay a minimum of ?25 per week before putting new I want
:25:07. > :25:11.to use on the electric. -- putting anything. That's my benefits gone
:25:12. > :25:19.now. How much money do you have? Nothing. Not a penny? Not one single
:25:20. > :25:27.solitary penny. Oh my word, no, no, no. This week ball has put ?48 of
:25:28. > :25:33.his ?50. 50 benefits in the metre. It is not rocket science. It leaves
:25:34. > :25:40.?2. 50 for food. For food. Everything is going on heating this
:25:41. > :25:45.room. Just this room. I have to choose heat because of my health.
:25:46. > :25:50.But you need to eat food to keep yourself strong as well. Of course.
:25:51. > :26:03.This is actually really upsetting. Walk around in my shoes. I feel
:26:04. > :26:07.quite distressed by it. I feel really angry that not through any
:26:08. > :26:12.fault of yours, because you have been ill, that you have to kind of
:26:13. > :26:17.keep yourself like warm, but you can't physically keep your yourself
:26:18. > :26:33.strong through food or eating the right types of food.
:26:34. > :26:39.Everything on. The rising cost in things like gas and electric, that
:26:40. > :26:43.money has to come from somewhere. Now, if you are already going
:26:44. > :26:47.without clothes, going out and all the rest of it, what is the last
:26:48. > :26:54.place you can cut back on? Your food. Another strain on Carly's
:26:55. > :26:59.budget is debt. How far away is school? A few years back, I had to
:27:00. > :27:03.take rather a large loan so I could afford a deposit for moving, the
:27:04. > :27:11.removal fees, the estate agent fees and a month Reece rent upfront. --
:27:12. > :27:15.rent upfront. In total Carly has over ?4,000 in debt. I made some
:27:16. > :27:19.very poor choices and tried to play keep up with the Joneses. I didn't
:27:20. > :27:22.want people to know we are the average benefit family. I was
:27:23. > :27:31.putting things on credit cards and stuff. You have 10 minutes to get
:27:32. > :27:36.through the door. I have taken a budgeting loan from the Government
:27:37. > :27:42.to provide clothes and had my child's bed repaired. Carly pays the
:27:43. > :27:48.credit card company every week. Her Government debts are repaid by a ?31
:27:49. > :27:52.perweek cut in her benefits. The rate at which they are asking me to
:27:53. > :27:58.pay this off, you know, I'm struggling. Carly's debt repayments
:27:59. > :28:05.have to come out of the ?267 benefits she has to spend a week. If
:28:06. > :28:10.I'm honest, that, you know, it is a night out in London. It is just
:28:11. > :28:22.crazy to think of. This says all figures are per week.
:28:23. > :28:29.Your main source of income is your child tax credit. Dee's benefits and
:28:30. > :28:36.widows pension total just under ?300 a week. Rachel wants to know why
:28:37. > :28:40.that's not enough to feed her kids nutritious meals. TV licence. ?7 for
:28:41. > :28:46.water. How much do you pay for electricity? ?about ?20. In theory
:28:47. > :28:52.you should have ?175 a week in your pocket.
:28:53. > :28:59.Yeah, go on. No, I don't. Do you have any debt interest you are
:29:00. > :29:04.paying? That's ?60. A month. A week. OK, so that wipes out quite a lot of
:29:05. > :29:10.your... Why didn't you tell me about that? Because I forgot. So, what is
:29:11. > :29:16.that? Did you take out a loan. Two years ago Dee borrowed ?1,000 from a
:29:17. > :29:20.doorstep lender to pay outstanding bills and Christmas for her four
:29:21. > :29:26.girls. What was the capital sum of your loan? It was ?1,000. All in all
:29:27. > :29:35.I have had to pay nearly ?1,900. Same again in interest. The loan has
:29:36. > :29:41.gone down by only ?265. It is bloody day daylight robbery. Companies
:29:42. > :29:45.charging sky high interest rates is often the only option for people on
:29:46. > :29:52.a low can be. Do they come around? He comes around every Friday. And he
:29:53. > :29:58.takes cash? Yes. Oh my God. So that's ?60. Yes. Oh my God, I'm
:29:59. > :30:02.beginning to understand. ?33 a week you have got for food to feed all
:30:03. > :30:08.three of you. Oh my God.
:30:09. > :30:24.OK. And your girls are so cheerful. So in the fridge at the moment we
:30:25. > :30:28.have potatoes, eggs banana. With only a few pounds in her pocket and
:30:29. > :30:33.three days to go before the next benefit payment, there is only one
:30:34. > :30:38.place Carly can turn to, to feed her family. The first time I had to go
:30:39. > :30:43.and approach the food bank I felt very embarrassed. You know, that I
:30:44. > :30:47.was having to go in there to ask for help. I think you should stop
:30:48. > :30:50.thinking that. I promise, if we were a couple and we were together and we
:30:51. > :30:54.were looking after our kids and you said - we are going to go to the
:30:55. > :31:00.food bank today I would still be like - let's G Bless, was that a
:31:01. > :31:08.proposal? Let's get married. -- let's go. But Carly can't just walk
:31:09. > :31:15.into a food bank. First, she has to convince her local council that she
:31:16. > :31:19.deserves emergency food aid. I'm trying to clear debt and to keep up
:31:20. > :31:23.with three going kids and trying to keep them full and them in clothes
:31:24. > :31:27.and stuff, you know for the last couple of weeks, I have had no
:31:28. > :31:31.heating on in my house, I just cannot afford that expense. What I
:31:32. > :31:35.put into one bill or debt is coming away from the other things that I'm
:31:36. > :31:39.trying to put on the table for my children. It really does make me
:31:40. > :31:48.feel like a bad parent. It makes me feel like I can't provide for my
:31:49. > :32:01.children. You know, there are times that... You know, it is an emotional
:32:02. > :32:07.thing. You do feel like you are doing wrong. That, you know, because
:32:08. > :32:13.of, you know, mistakes in the past, that you are a bad parent and it is
:32:14. > :32:21.a horrible feeling that I can't always provide what my children
:32:22. > :32:26.need. It's horrible. Carly has to go through this process every time she
:32:27. > :32:34.needs to visit a food bank. If I'm honest, I think parts of the reasons
:32:35. > :32:39.why she is in this situation isn't her fault. You get emotional. You
:32:40. > :32:47.bottle it up. She was earning a good wage, spent money, never saved. She
:32:48. > :32:53.ran up massive debts. She wasn't living in poverty. No, I wouldn't
:32:54. > :32:59.call it that. My understanding of living in poverty is where you don't
:33:00. > :33:11.really have a house. You are hungry. She doesn't have a house. She does
:33:12. > :33:16.have a roof over her head. Your figure something creeping up all the
:33:17. > :33:22.time. We keep finding things you are spending money on. Oh, your ciggies,
:33:23. > :33:29.how many packs a week? I buy one every other day? How much? ?3 a
:33:30. > :33:39.pack. Look at me in the eye? What, for 20? I buy Marlborough Lights for
:33:40. > :33:45.?484 for ten. Why are they so cheap? I don't know. Are they bootleg. You
:33:46. > :33:49.are smoking smuggled Russian cigarettes. Do you think I need to
:33:50. > :33:55.try one for the pups of research? Yes. If you added the ?12 she spends
:33:56. > :34:01.on cigarettes there would be more money for food. -- for the pups of
:34:02. > :34:06.research? I think she recognises that, but would she be able to cope
:34:07. > :34:12.without them? These are her choices. I don't now see them as a luxury
:34:13. > :34:21.item. It's lunch time and Ida is doing a dinnerlady shift at her
:34:22. > :34:28.daughter's school. We are done now. You are not doing bad. We might keep
:34:29. > :34:36.you. As she is on part-time hours and a low wage, Amelia gets a free
:34:37. > :34:42.school lunch. She gets fed too. Most days, it is the only meal she eats.
:34:43. > :34:47.Do I look like a man who doesn't know when he is going to eat again?
:34:48. > :34:52.The answer is yes. My belly is rumbling. I can't think about it.
:34:53. > :34:59.For Cheryl, lunch is the first meal of the day. I could really dip a
:35:00. > :35:06.load of things in it. Bread, chips, a Twix. Are you not having one? No I
:35:07. > :35:11.can't spoil myself by having something in the middle of the day
:35:12. > :35:17.when I don't normally. I feel bad now. Do you know, I play fairies in
:35:18. > :35:25.panto quite a lot. If I had a magic wand, I would want to wave it, go,
:35:26. > :35:28.ding, ding, ding. Food banks are coming to the rescue for an
:35:29. > :35:34.increasing number of struggling families. I should have got an
:35:35. > :35:41.e-mail to say I'm coming down. Yes, let's get you some food. In 20099
:35:42. > :35:50.biggest food bank provider ran 28 centres. -- in 2009. Today they have
:35:51. > :35:54.over 400. Do you want rice? I love Rice. A lot of the people who come
:35:55. > :35:58.here have had very good jobs. They have always looked after their
:35:59. > :36:02.family. They have always been able to get by without asking for help.
:36:03. > :36:08.We have had situations here, probably once or twice a week, where
:36:09. > :36:20.people come in and say they haven't eaten for two or three days. That's
:36:21. > :36:25.common. Hello. Food banks rely on donations from the public. When I go
:36:26. > :36:32.shopping I buy a bit extra. Absolutely amazing. I'm going to
:36:33. > :36:34.give you a hug now. Thank you darling. You are welcome. If you
:36:35. > :36:39.look at some of the comments. This is the UK and people are saying
:36:40. > :36:44.things like - thank you for feeding me today I was very hungry and you
:36:45. > :36:46.gave me food to eat. This is the UK. Thanks for the food again. Thanks
:36:47. > :37:02.for the food. Come here a minute. What is all
:37:03. > :37:08.this? Bank statement. Barclays bank. Barclays bank. This is the same.
:37:09. > :37:16.Maybe this is something I should look at for one of my stationery
:37:17. > :37:20.businesses. A new filing system. Radiators. You know why I keep it
:37:21. > :37:29.like that and then it goes down and it is filed. Out of sight, out of
:37:30. > :37:35.mind. In Deptford, Rachel has decided to
:37:36. > :37:46.spend her money on essentials for Dee's fridge. I have now got ?40
:37:47. > :37:53.left -- 40p left. 41 P. ! With what is left, Rachel wants to cook Dee's
:37:54. > :37:59.family a meal. I only have 40p, remember. We will see if we can get
:38:00. > :38:02.mince and do your chilli. We haven't got enough. We need 9p. Shall we ask
:38:03. > :38:14.someone? Why not? Aisle' ask someone. It's
:38:15. > :38:23.all right. Excuse me, do you have 9p? Excuse me, do you have 9p? -- Is
:38:24. > :38:30.that all the money you have in the whole world? I have my bank card but
:38:31. > :38:35.I don't have 9p? Excuse me, do you have 9p that I can have in order to
:38:36. > :38:44.buy something in Iceland it feed a family. Thank you so much. Thank you
:38:45. > :38:50.very, very much. Dinner sorted. Thank you.
:38:51. > :38:58.Hold on, hold on, what period is this? This is madness. This is the
:38:59. > :39:07.annual summary. During that year, you have paid 12 times ?650 in
:39:08. > :39:13.monthly account fees. 19 ?8 unpaid transaction fees and a further 33
:39:14. > :39:27.paid transactions fees and ?7 interest. Yes. ?505. That is
:39:28. > :39:35.terrible. That is terrible. Nearly 10% of her wages go on banks
:39:36. > :39:44.charges. That's not good. Are you hungry? They are incredibly close to
:39:45. > :39:50.each other but there has to come a time when Ida has to face up to her
:39:51. > :39:54.finances and there is going to come a time when she can't give her
:39:55. > :40:01.daughter everything. For me, it just feels like a train crash about to
:40:02. > :40:10.happen. She has run up debts of over ?2,000. So, is that it? Do you think
:40:11. > :40:18.that's our total debt? Maybe if we put ?20 extra to cover if I missed
:40:19. > :40:26.anything? What, ?20? That's not going to make a difference, is it?
:40:27. > :40:31.It is overload. She now needs to temper that. And, you know, I can
:40:32. > :40:36.see her pain. You know, I recognise it. I have seen it before. I have
:40:37. > :40:41.seen it with my own family when I was growing up. The same emotions.
:40:42. > :40:49.The same traits are there. And the same mistakes. It's dinner time. We
:40:50. > :40:56.actually only have one tin of tomatoes. In Grantham Paul is
:40:57. > :41:02.preparing his one and only meal of the day. You see, because of the
:41:03. > :41:10.milk you bought we have macaroni cheese. As usual, Ida is skipping
:41:11. > :41:16.dipper and Theo is doing the same. If it wasn't for the food bank, 100%
:41:17. > :41:25.we would be going hungry tonight. I'm missing choice. The-up us, the
:41:26. > :41:33.dips and crisps, and Elderflowers. I miss freshness -- the humous. The
:41:34. > :41:38.story here is that people are embarrassed to admit they are in
:41:39. > :41:44.food crisis. I mean, I begged on the street so I could buy my mince for
:41:45. > :41:48.supper. The first thing I have eaten in this house that has been fresh is
:41:49. > :41:54.this onion in this chilli. Do you want to taste this to tell me what
:41:55. > :42:00.it needs? We can take out some for your mum and Nicole who doesn't make
:42:01. > :42:05.it spicy? I'm considering tomorrow whether I need to dig a bit deeper
:42:06. > :42:12.to do with how much responsibility Dee is actually taking for her life
:42:13. > :42:18.and the girls' health. I have been good cop. Now I think it is time to
:42:19. > :42:26.turn bad cop. My mum used to make it so hot. That was nice. Cheryl is
:42:27. > :42:34.spending her food budget on meat for Paul. Yokes. Outside the stall she
:42:35. > :42:39.spots an opportunity, in the supermarket bin. Part of me just
:42:40. > :42:52.wants to go - leave it, walk away, leave it.
:42:53. > :43:01.I'm so excited. Hotcross buns, hottedcross buns. Bread. I feel like
:43:02. > :43:10.hunter gatherer going home with some food.
:43:11. > :43:14.-- hotcross buns. I have come bearing some goodies. Do you know
:43:15. > :43:25.what I've got? No idea. What have you got? We have bread. Bread.
:43:26. > :43:30.Rolls. Hotcross buns. Yeah. It ain't Easter yet. Where have you got all
:43:31. > :43:39.this lot? Basically, I picked it out of the bin. You are joking. No.
:43:40. > :43:56.That's not going to look good, is it? No. I don't want my kids to see
:43:57. > :44:06.me like this. It's hard, isn't it be? I'm better than this. I'm better
:44:07. > :44:11.than this. I need to sort my own issues about. It's not what kids are
:44:12. > :44:15.about. But they know what you have been through. They know my health
:44:16. > :44:18.issues, of course. Of course they do. You didn't choose to be in this
:44:19. > :44:22.situation. You didn't choose to have no food in the cupboards or have no
:44:23. > :44:27.electricity. You should not have to put up like this. You should not
:44:28. > :44:35.have to live like this. That's the way it is. How hard do you keep
:44:36. > :44:40.trying? When do you stop trying? I've always been a great believer
:44:41. > :44:44.that the only way to move forward on anything is to communicate. Do I
:44:45. > :44:51.suggest it might be a good idea if you can talk to somebody in your
:44:52. > :45:05.family and maybe admit to what you are actually - how you are living?
:45:06. > :45:15.Porridge is very filling and quite good for you. It is a better carb
:45:16. > :45:23.than white bread. There is one full day left with the hosts. The bin men
:45:24. > :45:31.come. Oh, they come, do they? Have they got any bread? I feel I could
:45:32. > :45:36.say anything to you now. Even if you don't agree with it, I think you can
:45:37. > :45:42.say - shut up. All your children you have communication with them. Name
:45:43. > :45:46.me the things you think they don't know when that would shock them.
:45:47. > :45:51.When they find out the extent of me in the cupboards and lack of food.
:45:52. > :45:55.They don't know that. No. Is that that a worry for you. Of course.
:45:56. > :46:00.Whether they have pressure or not It is going to put pressure on them.
:46:01. > :46:05.That's rubbish. They are your family. I'm the provider. I'm dad.
:46:06. > :46:09.You know what I mean. You are not Superman. You don't need to have
:46:10. > :46:16.those added pressures in your head of trying to hide stuff away from
:46:17. > :46:21.your family. In Deptford, Rachel wants a word with Dee Can I be a bit
:46:22. > :46:27.honest, when you look at your girls, what do you think in terms of their
:46:28. > :46:32.health and their diet? I don't know. They are just... But at that age I
:46:33. > :46:36.bet you were a rake. Because your mum made you meals from scratch.
:46:37. > :46:44.Meat and two veg. That sort of thing. I don't know, I'm just
:46:45. > :46:49.prosupering. And you didn't have a mobile and TV. -- I'm just
:46:50. > :46:52.presuming. The lifestyle of your girls, they are under your roof. You
:46:53. > :46:56.are getting child benefit for them. That needs to change as well. That
:46:57. > :47:00.is true. I'm only saying this. I think it has been really hard for
:47:01. > :47:05.you but I'm worried that you have decided that you can't do anything.
:47:06. > :47:13.I'm sorry to say all this. I just need to step up. There you go. Thank
:47:14. > :47:24.you. Today, Dee receives her benefits.
:47:25. > :47:34.Oh, isn't this lovely. And Rachel wants to change the way she shops
:47:35. > :47:39.for food. Gorgeous carrots. ! They are buying the ingredients for a
:47:40. > :47:51.healthy stew. God almighty, though. It can't be ?3. Surely not. ?3 for
:47:52. > :47:57.one suede. Admittedly grown in a beautiful organic farm in Kent.
:47:58. > :48:06.Completely unaffordable. Shall we go to ASDA and have a look? Or we can
:48:07. > :48:11.go to Sainsbury's. Hello. You look like your dad.
:48:12. > :48:16.Cheryl is also looking for answers. I can't get over how much you look
:48:17. > :48:22.like your dad. Paul has invited his youngest son Dean around for a chat.
:48:23. > :48:26.What do you think I'm here for To see how dad lives. OK when it comes
:48:27. > :48:32.down to it, the money he gets is not enough money for him to live. He
:48:33. > :48:37.seems to only have one meal a day. Are you quite aware your dad is
:48:38. > :48:43.eating nothing. Well, no. Could you survive on a tin of soup a day? No,
:48:44. > :48:49.I can't imagine anybody doing that. Well, that's the truth, though, man.
:48:50. > :48:56.It's bad, isn't it? Why do you think he hasn't told you what is going on?
:48:57. > :49:01.Don't know. He is too proud. Why haven't you? It is embarrassing for
:49:02. > :49:06.me to go to my kids to tell them the situation I'm in. They have enough
:49:07. > :49:12.of their own problems. It is hard. We struggle at times but there is
:49:13. > :49:21.still enough to help out. There is plenty of us. How do you feel now he
:49:22. > :49:26.knows? Better. I'm not proud. I just hope he doesn't think bad of me now
:49:27. > :49:31.he knows. I will not think bad of you. I just know now that I can do
:49:32. > :49:36.more to help you, rather than be in that situation. There is that
:49:37. > :49:42.saying, a shared is a problem halved. I feel that although I can't
:49:43. > :49:45.wave any magic wands, that that conversation needed to happen today.
:49:46. > :49:49.I will see you next time. Now, everything is out in the open. They
:49:50. > :49:53.will be more concerned about me and asking me am I all right, have I got
:49:54. > :49:59.this and have I got that and do I need anything? To me it shows that
:50:00. > :50:03.there might be, light at the end of the tunnel, if you like.
:50:04. > :50:10.He is really nice. He takes after his dad.
:50:11. > :50:20.. Oh, why don't we chuck some of that in. Rachel and Dee ended up
:50:21. > :50:27.buying cheap vegetables from her local supermarket. What is that? It
:50:28. > :50:38.is a leek. To make Rachel's meat and veg stew. Work out what it cost? ?6.
:50:39. > :50:45.?7 with a tin of Guinness. It is over budget for the day, isn't it?
:50:46. > :50:50.That was about as cheap a meal as I could imagine making. I have blown
:50:51. > :51:03.her budget. We made a healthy meal tonight but it cost ?7. And it's
:51:04. > :51:06.lovely. I think you have to take your finances into control and then
:51:07. > :51:12.your life will be so much better. You give your daughter so much love,
:51:13. > :51:17.that quite honestly, you don't have to worry about buying her anything.
:51:18. > :51:27.Slee doesn't want treats and for you to suffer. -- she doesn't. The bank
:51:28. > :51:35.fees. No more bank fees. No more bank fees. You cannot afford ?50 on
:51:36. > :51:41.Sky. You can afford ?15 on Sky. We have to get us back under the
:51:42. > :51:47.account balance. And open your mail. The bad news for you is - what I
:51:48. > :51:52.really wanted to do was to come here, learn, shut the door and go.
:51:53. > :51:59.You haven't allowed me to do that, or Amelia. Because you have been too
:52:00. > :52:05.lovely. So, I am going to bug you. Even after I leave. OK. I really
:52:06. > :52:10.appreciate that. And I'm going to keep an eye on you. And you are not
:52:11. > :52:14.going to let me down. Never. If I let you down, it will be like
:52:15. > :52:22.letting Amelia and myself down. Good. Give me a kiss. Fantastic.
:52:23. > :52:27.More involvement will make so much difference. I know it is only one
:52:28. > :52:37.family and there are hundreds of thousands. But it's one I've been
:52:38. > :52:42.living with. I know we live poles apart but I really do relate to
:52:43. > :52:46.them. It is so much like the way I lived when I was small and the way I
:52:47. > :53:00.was brought up. There was nobody to help us. So, how could I walk away?
:53:01. > :53:08.I've got me now. I'm done. So I've been with her for the last
:53:09. > :53:13.few days. - ahaven't done a poo. I went to the loo just now. And for
:53:14. > :53:18.some reason, I didn't G I'm desperate. But there's loo paper in
:53:19. > :53:23.the loo and borrow it, to take back to the house so we have loo paper in
:53:24. > :53:31.the house, so tonight I can settle in and have a poo.
:53:32. > :53:36.I'm so excited. I'm going to light candles and everything. Carly is
:53:37. > :53:40.applying for a training course to become a security guard. I don't
:53:41. > :53:44.want to be on benefits for the rest of my life. And I don't want to
:53:45. > :53:49.teach my children that the only way forward for them also is to not do
:53:50. > :53:55.very well because, hay, we can live on benefits. I want to feel proud
:53:56. > :54:01.I'm providing for my family. I think I have filled that out successfully.
:54:02. > :54:06.But having inrolled she gets some other news. If you can't afford to
:54:07. > :54:12.keep it on, that's the way it has to go. The private landLord that owns
:54:13. > :54:16.her home has a problem. Right, I still don't think that's going to be
:54:17. > :54:25.an option because there is no money in the pot.
:54:26. > :54:39.Carly can't afford a rent deposit on another house. What has happened?
:54:40. > :54:48.That was a really hard phonecall. Um, I've just basically been told
:54:49. > :54:54.that I'm about to lose where I live. Why? Why has that suddenly happened?
:54:55. > :54:59.The landlord wants the property back because he is going to put the house
:55:00. > :55:05.back on the market to sell it. So technically speaking, in two to
:55:06. > :55:12.three months, I don't have anywhere to live any more.
:55:13. > :55:19.If she is evicted Carly's family will be placed in council housing
:55:20. > :55:22.but they may have to live in temporary accommodation first. It
:55:23. > :55:30.seems to be one blow after another and then above all of that going on,
:55:31. > :55:34.your hungry. I don't think Carly has felt that she's had a break or had
:55:35. > :55:39.any situations that have been good to her. Maybe my definition of
:55:40. > :55:43.poverty is slightly blurred. Maybe some of the choices she made were
:55:44. > :55:47.wrong but everyone has made bad choices but now she doesn't have the
:55:48. > :55:53.ability to choose. Maybe this is poverty. Maybe this is UK poverty.
:55:54. > :56:03.She doesn't have the ability to choose anything. It's such a weird
:56:04. > :56:07.dilemma. Because I don't want to leave because it's selfish to leave.
:56:08. > :56:11.I just don't want to leave but at the same time I do want to leave
:56:12. > :56:20.because it's very emotionally draining and it's hard. Thank you
:56:21. > :56:27.so, so much. Never take anything in life for granted, really, ever
:56:28. > :56:31.because any situation can turn your life upside down. You don't expect
:56:32. > :56:35.to go up in the morning, do you, go to work and that evening be
:56:36. > :56:40.completely out of it and then realise that maybe you will never go
:56:41. > :56:44.back to that job again? Thank you so much for having me. The evidence on
:56:45. > :56:48.the ground is that there are loads more people like Dee than there
:56:49. > :56:56.were. I didn't even know there were people like De, to begin with. So
:56:57. > :57:04.this has been a major eye-opener. "Dear Theo. I hope that you were an
:57:05. > :57:07.inspiration, that even though we are poor, we still have a good life.
:57:08. > :57:27.Don't forget me." Sport Relief money is supporting
:57:28. > :57:31.food banks, breakfast clubs and a whole range of other projects like
:57:32. > :57:34.the ones you have seen in tonight's programme. You can make a real
:57:35. > :57:38.difference to families who rely on them. To donate ?5 text the word
:57:39. > :58:04."food.". In tomorrow's Famous, Rich and
:58:05. > :58:10.Hungry... Is this an estate. The famous volunteers have to help their
:58:11. > :58:19.new families. Respect. Escape food poverty. In the soup kitchen, one
:58:20. > :58:26.little thing can set things off. It's very hard to see the story
:58:27. > :58:30.having a Hollywood ending. I do really appreciate everything. If I
:58:31. > :58:37.was Prime Minister, I would make it illegal.