Well, apparently, these food banks are a great meeting place for people who are lonely and depressed. The food bank volunteers then talk to the people who use them.
The Local Government Act of 1929 effectively abolished the Poor Law, which had kept recipients of state relief in harsh workhouses and transferred responsibility for payments to local councils.
The recipients of poor relief and of unemployment relief know that the state is there to assist them, but only if they remain poor or unemployed and unable to help themselves.