Zoom Speaker for Birstall Community Partnership
Mon, Nov 16th 2020 at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Zoom Speaker Lisa Holmes Birstall Community Partnership
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Speaker Lisa Holmes Birstall Community Partnership Food Share. |
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Birstall Luddites have given financial support to the Birstall Food Share during the
coronavirus epidemic. On Mon 14th Nov Lisa came to speak to the club via Zoom accompanied by volunteer John Senior.
She explained how she started in Leeds and the closing of Chatterbox. She thanked John Logan for the use of Howden Clough Community Centre and how she decided to not call the group a food bank but a food share for helping people and families in need at short notice.  allowing one person per family into the centre. She said 90% of service users were local people and families.
Lisa told of her collecting from local supermarkets but hot meals cannot be done due to Covid. She said Donna at Cobbles is a splinter group and that nothing gets wasted between the groups. Lisa promoted their facebook site. The group meets 4:50pm on Thursday and at 5:30 they open for food share and all is finished at 6:30pm. She explained they give out fresh food on Thursdays and supply food parcels helped with some of our donations. She told of new volunteer faces every week and that families come to food share but only one service user per family is allowed into the centre due to the covid rules. Lisa and John took questions from Luddites and again thanked the club for their support. President Margaret thanked Lisa and John for speaking to the club and expressed the hope for future working together. |
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Lisa collecting food supplies from Tesco.
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Howden Clough Community Food Share centre in action
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Volunteer John :- from Lisa Facebook
"For anyone who does not know who this man is, let me explain. Jon is without doubt the backbone of our team. He uses the valuable free time he has to make sure the Food Share on Thursdays works. This ranges from collections from supermarkets, to the general working of the event itself. He has been key from day one and his enthusiasm for the community and its general good never ceases to amaze us all. Jon, thank you. You really are the unsung hero of Birstall.." Lisa |
| LINK Birstall Comunity Partnership Facebook site |
| LINK Lisa Holmes Facebook site |
| LINK John the pieman Senior Facebook site |
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