Work experience students from Queen Elizabeth’s School, Emily Hawkins, Evie Rowden and Nathaniel Shaw, who were spending the week with Tesco, assisted with the collection.
The students helped on a stall in the foyer of the store, collected cash donations and gave out notes to shoppers asking if they would buy additional items required by Crediton Foodbank.
The Crediton Foodbank currently has a shortage of the following items:
Tinned Goods: tomatoes, ready meals (curry, beef and onion, sweet and sour, chicken in sauce, stewed steak, etc), Fray Bentos pies (not steak and kidney please), potatoes, carrots, peas, sweetcorn, baked beans (no other beans or pulses please), spaghetti hoops, ham, corned beef, tuna (not in oil - no sardines or pilchards please), fruit (no grapefruit or prunes), custard and rice pudding.
Cupboard Items: cereal, biscuits, coffee, sugar, jam, marmalade, UHT milk, cartons of long-life juices, rice - brown and white, squash and jars of sauce (bolognese, Chinese, Indian, etc).
Non-Food Items: washing up liquid, washing powder tablets, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, shower gel, soap and toilet rolls.
Donations of food can be made directly to the Foodbank at The Manse, Crediton Congregational Church on Tuesday mornings (from 10am to 12 noon) or Friday evenings (6.30pm to 7.30pm) or via the Tesco Foodbin, the Yellow Bookshop or at the “Courier” office.
Crediton Foodbank is run by Churches Together in Crediton. It offers food parcels to single people, couples and families who are on a low income or have had benefit delays.
If you would like to know any more or be updated regarding current needs please contact Chris Parsons, Crediton Foodbank Co-ordinator, on telephone 07740 202721 or by email: [email protected] .
The Foodbank has seen an increase in the need to use the Foodbank since Universal Credit came into force in the area in June. Any changes to benefits results in at least a five-week delay when people often have no money coming in.
Hundreds of adult food parcels and more than 100 children’s parcels have been distributed so far this year from Crediton Foodbank.
In the Spring Chris Parsons thanked all those who supported the Foodbank, adding particular thanks to Andrew Drayton, the Community Champion at the Crediton Tesco Store, in setting up collection days and for other assistance.