Since the 1st September, I have presented to 3 Parish Councils, all of which have been kind enough to provide funding to help support our essential running costs - so a big THANK YOU to the following Parish / Town councils:
Walton Parish Council,
Bradwell Parish Council
Wol
verton & Greenleys Town Council. This maintains our 100% record of support from Parishes accross MK.We have also had some great press coverage in both the MK News and the Citizen. The Citizen will be running an article each week for 4 weeks on the run up to the Mercedes-Benz supported Food collection in Midsummer Place on 1st / 2nd October.
Thankfully Harvest Festival is just around the corner and again The Food Bank has been busy with school assemblies and talks in Church Services. Volunteer Helen Dray, did her first Church Service talk last Sunday at Mursely Church and today did her first assembly at Stoke Goldington CE First School - so well done Helen!
The demand is completely outsripping supply at the moment with 2733 food parcels given out already this year - 50% up on the same period last year. Our stocks are really very low so the injection of food that will come in as a result of Harvest Festival is very much needed.
We also had our w
arehouse heater installed this week - you probably heard the large shout of HOORAY from our volunteers! This has been made possible by a grant from the Milton Keynes Community Foundation and a generous private donation.
That's all for now folks - keep watching this space for more Food Bank news.
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