I'm glad that online stat is living there, to put together all the time and effort that goes into soup kitchens, canned food drives, office supplies donated to schools, etc.
If you lived there any length of time, you'd see that. It's common enough, for example, for working poor to visit food banks for groceries. I know, I used to go to them. The tax structure and law in the two states I lived in was set up, too, so supermarkets and restaurants could donate unwanted, but still in date, food to food banks with no fear of lawsuit.
Many food banks were religious in foundation, that is how they got funding, but staffed by volunteers of many denominations, or none at all. Or you were welcome to visit any religious food bank with no questions asked.
It's evident, too, even in the way they get people to donate blood often. A 'blood drive' is held, usually at a shopping mall, on a Saturday. It is open very late, till 10PM or so, so people who work can access it. Sponsors such as radio stations have the space donated to them, the phlebotomists and nurses donate their time (often in return for a day off in lieu), the radio DJs or TV anchors donate their time, prizes, some of them quite significant, are donated by local businesses (who get a tax write-off) and given by a raffle that you can only enter by giving blood.
It's very far from perfect, but it's far more prevalent than here, largely because of the nature and geography of both places. It's not a fault, it just is what it is because it is a different place.
They are different, that is why US-based policies, which the Tories seem to love, won't work here.
They have a much larger population and are very adverse to high taxes, which they see as unwanted government interference, and so their cuts will need to be different.
It's comparing apples and oranges and it's lazy thinking, too, to base policy on its model, rather than conceiving of ones that better suit Britain and its populace.