Upmarket food banks? It’s a funny old game

Food banks are continuing to head upmarket, following the ocado- style delivery service introduced in royal Tunbridge Wells recently.

A charity called Fairshare is distributing game birds left behind after a day’s shooting. More than 1,300 birds were given away as part of a pilot scheme in August on the Glorious Twelfth — the official start of the grouse season. Fairshare now hopes to expand the programme to corporate shooting events at some of the most exclusive estates in Britain.

Soon, patrons of food banks, school breakfast clubs and women’s hostels could be feasting on pheasant and grouse.

It’s designed to tackle hunger and poverty, while at the same time making shooting socially respectable.

At this rate, Waitrose will be going out of business. There’ll be range rovers parked ten deep at food banks all over the country. Maybe they could throw in a few bottles of Famous Grouse for the winos! Pull!