Thursday 15th was another first - it was the first time that we had to transport our food parcels from our new warehouse to Milton Keynes Christian Centre for our serving session between 11am & 12 noon.
Sue & Helen had spent the previous day getting settled in to our new home and also bagging up enough food parcels to ensure we would not run out, as we no longer have the luxury of making more bags up on site - everything now has to be transported in and out for each session.
Everyone was at the warehouse by 9.30am and we had loaded "Vicky" (the van) by 10am and were on site at MKCC by 10.15am to unload. We even had time for a quick cuppa before opening the doors to our service users!
We are now using plastic totes to put the made up bags in which does make things easier. One lesson we did learn was not to overload the totes as by the end of the serving session those that had not been given out felt a whole lot heavier than they did at the start of the day!
Considering it was the first time we had done this, it went really well and I am sure we will fine tune things over the next few weeks.
Thank you to everyone who has made this possible and to everyone who supports The Food Bank in any way, whether it be financially, with food donations or time - as without you it would not be possible to serve our community and to make the difference that we do in peoples lives.
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