Harvest Festival
We celebrated our Harvest Festival in school on Wednesday last week, led by our Worship Group and on Monday, 16th October we welcomed two special guests to our morning Worship, Nigel Currey from Selby & District Foodbank and Maria Dodds who represented the BPASA. Nigel brought in 2 bags of donated food and explained to the children how this was the amount of food that is given to one person to sustain them for a three to five-day period. He explained how the food is organised and distributed in the Foodbank and how the volunteers work tirelessly, not only to stock the shelves and distribute the food but also to offer advice to customers regarding what benefits they may be entitled to claim.
Over 90% of the food distributed by the Trussell Network on behalf of the foodbank is donated by the public. Many thanks to all of our families, whose contributions will be much appreciated by customers of Selby & District Foodbank.
Nigel Currey, Chairman of Trustees for Selby and District Foodbank said: -
“We depend very heavily on donations from local people and this years’ Harvest Festival donations have been amazing. We are grateful for donations of food from many Schools including Barlow CE Primary School, from where I collected 63.7ks of donated food this week. Many thanks to all those involved at Barlow. As demand at Foodbank increases, donations of both food and money from School and Church Harvest Festivals boost our stocks to enable our volunteers us to meet this demand. We have several Harvest Festival donations still to collect and we appreciate the efforts of all who have given so much to us in the past few weeks and for that still to be collected. Well done everyone.”
For further information regarding how to give or receive from Selby & District Foodbank, please follow the link About | Selby & District Foodbank
