Blackpool soup kitchen boss says staff 'go home in tears'
"We go home at night sometimes in tears," the founder of a Blackpool soup kitchen says.
"When the place has [run] out of food and we have still have 10, 20 people arriving and we're trying to come up with food that isn't there, it's not a very nice feeling," Mark Butcher, from Amazing Graze, said.
He said the community cafe was feeding double the number of people it did last year but battling with a "massive" drop in donations because people can no longer afford to help.
"We do feel that we are letting people down then," he added.
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