LOUISE CONNELL is showing her support for The Trussell Trust with all the proceeds from her latest single being donated to the charity.

Tomorrow (Friday, November 27), the singer will release For Christmas, a pained and mournful tale written in the face of increasing reliance on food banks across Scotland.

The track was written in anger after Connell watched a news report looking at child poverty.

For Christmas is written from the perspective of those in need of emergency support and how they are treated in society.

It paints a harrowing picture of life that, unfortunately, more and more households are beginning to experience first-hand. 

Lyrics such as "so I fill out the forms and I do as I’m told; little hands tug my sleeves
my god they feel cold" highlight the human anguish which lies beneath the economic inequality across the country.

Others such as "and there aren't always places for people like me... When they don’t see that you’re a symptom, so they treat you like disease" call on more people to challenge the class-based rhetoric that is becoming increasingly popular.

Speaking on her Facebook page, the singer said: "I wrote the song around this time last year, and it's awful that its message is even more pertinent now.

"We teach our children to share, we want them to be the people who offer half of their sandwiches to the kids in the playground who forgot theirs that day, but all the while our society grows increasingly selfish and individualistic."

Connell feels there is an "insidious ideology that some people deserve to live in poverty, or that it's their fault, or that it's solely their responsibility to improve their circumstances".

She continued: "Sometimes I think that certain members of this society spend so much time justifying whether their help is merited that they forget to consider whether it's right, or kind, or human."

For Christmas can be purchased on Bandcamp for just 99p - click here.

The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks and provides emergency food and support to people locked in poverty.

Their work also includes campaigning for the change that is required to end the need for food banks in our society.

For more on charity, visit https://www.trusselltrust.org/