SHOPPERS can show that ‘every little helps’ by supporting Worcester Foodbank’s summer food collections at two city supermarkets.
Volunteers will be at Tesco in Warndon and St Peters from Thursday to Saturday (July 2 to 4) where they will be inviting customers to add an extra item to their basket or trolley which they can donate to foodbank as they leave the store.
Organisers have set their sights on collecting five tonnes of food to help foodbank cope with an expected surge in demand from hungry families struggling to make ends meet during the school holidays.
During 2014/15 the Carden Close centre handed out 38 tonnes of food to almost 4,000 people.
Grahame Lucas, Worcester Foodbank manager, said: “With no free school meals to rely on many children from struggling families face the miserable prospect of going hungry during the holidays.
“That’s why the success of these supermarket collections is so important to make sure we have everything we need to feed them and the hundreds of other hungry people who have nowhere else to turn.”
Volunteers will be handing out shopping lists featuring items the foodbank needs and asking customers to consider purchasing something which they can donate as they leave the store.
