STAFF at Bromsgrove company AFH have delivered 105kg worth of food items to Droitwich Foodbank.
Set up in 2014, the foodbank works with a number of different agencies, such as Citizens Advice, children’s centres and health visitors to help people who are struggling to put food on the table. Its website also features monthly recipes for those on a tight budget.
Around 70 volunteers help out, and last year they distributed more than 1,100 three-day food parcels to people in Droitwich Spa and the surrounding area.
Foodbank volunteer Debbie Ash said: “This food will be distributed to needy people as chosen by local social services, doctors, schools and 30 other agencies.
“This year there have been more people asking for support, but we have also seen a greater amount of donations. By this point in the last two years we’ve fed 700. This year we’re at 900 already.”
AFH charity co-ordinator Jenny Read said: “It was amazing we collected so much. It took us ages to get all the wonderful stuff colleagues had donated into the cars! And it’s great to know all that food will be helping make Christmas a little bit better for people who otherwise might not have had enough to eat.”
AFH also raised almost £800 for Cancer Research UK by holding its own home-made Christmas jumper competition.
More than 100 people took part in the event and the company’s charity co-ordinator Jenny Read said she was ‘chuffed’ with how much had been raised.
“We’re all really pleased to have finished our fund-raising year on such a high note.
“And of course, we had a load of fun too.”
The event took the fund-raising total to £2,040 for the year.
