Last weekend saw the first Food Bank supermarket collection in Woburn Sands and it was a great success!
Many thanks to Anne Bircham who opened up the disucssions with Brian Kirkland - Manager at the Co-op and of course to Brian and all his team and their customers who made the collection such a success.
None of this would have been possible without the many local volunteers who gave up their time to offer customers one of our shopping lists to encourage them to buy one extra item and to donate on their way out. Altogether, almost 450 items of food were donated, which is a massive help to us at such a busy time.
Talking about busy - yesterday was one of our busiest days with 21 separate families coming to The Food Bank for help in just the one hour that we are open!
We are still learning how many bags to make up and take to MKCC on our serving days and yesterday we underestimated and had to "mix and match" to ensure everyone received their parcels. In fact two families decided to go to CrossLinks today instead, as we would have been unable to provide their full allocation yesterday!
To ensure this does not happen again, Deanna is frantically bagging up food parcels as I am typing - what a great team I have.
Enjoy the sunshine and keep reading.
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