Hundreds benefit from busiest festive season for Telford food bank
Around 300 needy residents were given parcels in what Telford food bank bosses described as the busiest festive season in the history of the service.
Telford Crisis Centre, which operates the borough's main distribution hub, handed over 100 parcels on December 23, making it the busiest Christmas ever for staff and volunteers.
The team was full of praise for donors including householders, businesses, schools and worship centres for coming it is aid.
Its website said: "This has been the busiest Christmas season we’ve ever had. Last week we received just as many donations in five days than we’d normally get in two months.
"We’d like to thank every single person that has made a donation for our Christmas project.
"Whether you’ve challenged your colleagues to a fundraising task, your family has done a reverse advent box, put some posters up around your offices, arranged a food collection for your company or building or you’ve simply spared a few pounds, we’ve been absolutely blown away by the support we’ve had.
"As always, a lot of our team give up their own personal time to help and we can’t thank you all enough for your hard work and dedication."
The service added that its bumper Christmas box day collection on December 23 ensured that 300 adults and children would have had a proper Christmas Day dinner.
Sorting
"Thank you everyone - for your help. We’ve had just as many private and personal donations which have all been so kind and we’ve enjoyed meeting and speaking with you all.
"Thank you so much to our hard-working volunteers for sorting and processing everything, you’re fantastic," it stated.
The centre said it was also grateful to The Hub on the Hill, at Sutton Hill, for providing extra storage space, along with customer donations from Sainsbury’s Forge Retail Park branch and donations collected by Wrekin Housing Group staff.
Other 2019 donors included E-Innovation Centre, Ricoh UK, Hadley Learning Community, Kraft-Heinz, childminding service Little Willows, Simmonds Transport, Telford College, Magna International, Sutton Maddock Vehicle Rental Ltd, Teagues Bridge Primary, Associated Telecom Solutions, Wilko Southwater branch, Sainsburys, St Michael's Church Madeley, Severn Partnership, Towergate Insurance, SP Services (UK) Ltd, Some Ink Different, Mannleys Sales & Lettings, Avara Foods, Autocraft Telford Ltd, Hitachi Personal Finance, Jolly Good Eggs, The Hub on the Hill Sutton Hill, Thomas Telford School, Telford Wound Healing Service, AMP Clean Energy, Telford Golf And Spa Hotel. Bournville Village Trust - Lightmoor Village, Ellerdine Methodist Church and residents, VA Technology Ltd, Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby, SB Plumbing, Telford Rota, John Fletcher School, Anytime Fitness Telford, TSB Wellington & Telford branches, HMRC/PCS, Rosewood Pet Products, Babcock International, Melitta UK, and Protolabs.
The centre based, in Leegate Avenue, Leegomery, has reopened operations after the festive break. The food bank opened six years ago.
