Susan Green one of the indefatigable founders and voluntary workers for the community at Littleport’s independent food bank has given us an update. Susan writes: “I am writing this just after the second lockdown has been announced. Sadly this means we will be having more people needing our help. Since the first lockdown our numbers have nearly doubled. Thankfully we live in a caring community who support us so helping their fellow Littleport residents. Without…
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Food Bank – Reports to our Community
We have been busy delivering food parcels and collecting donations. The generosity of the community is amazing. If it were not for that support to us at Littleport’s independent food bank we would not be able to provide for all the extra people who we are now supporting. We have not been able to work from our usual base in St George’s church but are hopeful for the future. We miss working out of the…
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Due to the circumstances we have all been living in we have been busier than ever at food bank. Many people have had the rug pulled from beneath their feet. The church building was closed for many weeks and so we began delivering to people’s homes and also collecting donations. Leaving and collecting from their doorsteps. The community has been extremely generous. Deliveries being made once every two weeks unless there has been an emergency…
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Thanks to our wonderful community it was a busy time for Littleport’s Food Bank last December. We were able to provide full Christmas Dinners for people to cook on Christmas Day and treats like chocolates and festive tins of biscuits. The last Tuesday of the Christmas Term we were invited to LECA, Littleport and East Cambs Academy to collect the food students had donated, and to judge a special competition – the containers the students…
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We are now in our fourth year of Littleport Independent Foodbank. We operate from St George’s Church every Tuesday and Friday from 10 in the morning until 12 noon. We are always grateful to the church for allowing us to ‘take over’ their vestry, and we do take up quite a lot of space! We are so fortunate to be supported by such a caring community and humbled by people’s kindness. One lady come rain…
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In July Littleport Independent Foodbank will have been open for two years. We operate from the vestry in St Georges Church. The Church has made us welcome and they are very patient as we seem to be taking up more and more space. We open Tuesdays and Fridays from 10am -12 noon. As we are independent we are able to help in more ways than just supplying food, plus we are able to help for…
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