SHOPPERS at a village Co-op store can help make sure local families living below the poverty line can still put food on the table.
The store, in Knutsford Road, Grappenhall, has become an official collection point for Foodbank – an organisation that provides emergency food supplies for local people in need.
Customers are encouraged to buy one extra thing during their weekly shop and place it in the charity collection point at the store. Tinned foods, dried pasta, cooking sauces, as well as tea, coffee and toiletries are all welcome.
Store manager David Appleton said: “The economic climate is tough, and many families are feeling the strain. Donations don’t have to be expensive, from a tin of beans to a packet of pasta, just one extra item in your weekly shop can make a real difference to those in need.”
Foodbank co-ordinator John Dolan said: “It’s awful to think that any of our neighbours would be going hungry. Having a collection box in The Co-operative food store is a convenient way of enabling customers to help out those people living in food crisis.”
Picture: Staff at the Co-op show off more than 20 carrier bags of food donated since the Foodbank scheme was launched.
Village shoppers help the needy
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