Black Country Foodbank news
Hi everyone,
Wendy has asked me to drop you an e-mail.
Thank you soooo much for your brilliant response to last week’s appeal for UHT milk. Please keep it coming.
We now have the numbers fed for February.
You fed –610 people (including 207 children)
That’s an 89 % increase on February 2010.
(In March 2010 we fed 622 people, if that increase is repeated this year we need your help)
So, what we after?
The Storehouse needs:
· Tinned Tomatoes
· Tinned Potatoes
· Tinned Carrots
· Rice
· Coffee
· UHT Milk
· UHT Fruit Juice
· Cooking Sauces
· Mash Potatoes
· Ready Meals
· Tinned Beans
· Sausages
· Ravioli
· Irish Stew
· Casserole
· Roll-on deodorant
· Shower Gel
· Toothpaste
I’ve also attached our shopping list for you to distribute.
Please will you ask your contacts to talk to their work places about collecting food in offices.
Have you got contact in schools, would they collect for us (staff and all children/families)?
| Month | Food In | Food Out | No Fed |
| January | 2.8 tonnes | 2.6 tonnes | 448 |
| February | 2.0 tonnes | 2.9 tonnes | 610 |
| Total | 4.8 tonnes | 5.5 tonnes | shortfall. 0.7 tonnes |
as you can see, we need your donations of food to keep coming in.
Kindest regards,
Laura
pp. Black Country Foodbank
our tagline is: for such a time as this…. with good reason!
Thank you from all the team
from the desk of Ruth Longville Funding/Admin Co-ordinator Black Country Foodbank “for such a time as this ………” UK Registered Charity No 1136676 www.blackcountryfoodbank.org.uk Black Country Food Bank also have a page where you can donate online – this can be found at www.charitygiving.co.uk/blackcountryfoodbank.
