This evening our home group helped sort the goods received from local Harvest Festivals for our local Basics Bank. It was a great evening and an excellent place to use our organisational skills. Finding the unit on theindustrial estate was a challenge, but we saw the Basics Bank delivery van and could follow that, some of our group arrived late as it was difficult to find the exact unit on the estate.
I found some fo my assumptions challenged as to the type of food that are most required. They had an extreme abundance of tins of soup and baked beans, but not so much baby food and nappies. The guy leading the sorting said that at differnt times of the year they require different goods.
He said that the use of food banks had risen compared with this time last year by 50%.
So everyone can I encourage you to give something from your weekly or monthly shopping budget to help those people who don't have enough money to buy food. By buying tins and packets of food, nothing can be taken for administration costs, though if you wished to give donations of money I am sure they would greatly receive your gift.
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