Peter Mata'utia reveals how childhood experiences inspire him to volunteer in local food banks

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Peter Mata’utia knows exactly how people feel when they step into their local food bank or soup kitchen. The Castleford Tigers centre grew up in Sydney in a family that needed help from its local community with domestic violence a damaging issue at home.

The 30-year-old has never forgotten what he went through, and - until Covid restrictions temporarily prevented him - would volunteer at Pontefract Food Bank and Street Kitchen every week.

Mata’utia explained: “I grew up with domestic violence in the house, and we were always in homes and food banks. My parents split up when I was younger for certain reasons, and I used to watch my mum get beat up from dad. “We were in and out of our house and home shelters, visited places like food banks,