Market Drayton gingerbread bakery donates thousands of biscuits
Market Drayton's Original Biscuit Bakers have donated thousands of hand-decorated gingerbread biscuits to NHS workers, a food bank and the homeless.
The biscuits have gone to the Market Drayton Foodbank, City Harvest London (a charity that distributes food to the needy in London) and the Royal Stoke University Hospital via the University Hospitals of North Midlands Charity.
Original Biscuit Bakers sales and marketing director Sarah Hopcroft said: "Due to the current health crisis, our stock levels were high and we could see an opportunity to donate to worthy causes both locally and further afield.
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"We are absolutely delighted to have donated our hand-decorated novelty biscuits to those who are desperately in need via three fantastic charities.
"We really hope our delightful and lovingly produced Easter gingerbread biscuits brought cheer and joy to those on the front line, those struggling with homelessness and also food poverty in such turbulent and difficult times.
"I am extremely grateful to the amazing City Harvest London, Market Drayton Foodbank and University Hospital of North Midlands Charity for organising the re-distribution of what would otherwise be surplus goods."
CEO of City Harvest, Laura Winningham, said: "We are a non-profit surplus food redistribution charity who deliver for free to those in need. Covid-19 means now, more than ever, our City Harvest vans are needed on the roads delivering food to charities across London who are preparing food parcels for vulnerable groups including NHS workers on the front line.
"We are delighted to receive donations such as these beautiful Easter-themed gingerbread biscuits which were such a delightful Easter-themed gift in such stressful times."
Four large boxes of artisan gingerbread were also donated to the Market Drayton Foodbank in time for Easter.
Food bank manager Helen McSherry said: "We thank and are very grateful to Sarah and her company for donating the Easter biscuits to us which were a lovely addition to our usual emergency food parcels during these difficult times. The biscuits were also added to the child holiday meal parcels so the children of Market Drayton will have received these in time for Easter."
