This year, we are pleased to announce that we are donating £5,000 to The Christies NHS Foundation Trust (Cancer Research), and another £5,000 to the Stockport Foodbank.
Every year, we choose charities that are close to our hearts to donate £10,000 to. This year we wanted to split the money between two well-deserving charities.
Food banks have become more and more needed over the last few years. Food is donated by schools, churches, businesses and individuals. The items are non-perishable and in-date, with many people adding an item from a food bank shopping list to their own family shop.
You may have seen volunteers at a supermarket collection near you when shoppers are asked to buy an extra item or two to help local people in crisis. At the food bank, volunteers sort the food to check it is in date and box it up ready to be handed out.
People in need then come along to the banks, usually having been referred there by health workers, doctors or other professionals.
Stockport Foodbank is a local charity close to our office, but there are many more food banks across the UK that are in need of donations. So if you are reading this blog, please consider donating to your local food bank.
About the charities:
Christies NHS Foundation Trust (Cancer Research)
“We are the largest single site cancer centre in Europe, treating more than 60,000 patients a year. We are also the first UK centre to be officially accredited as a comprehensive cancer centre. As part of the NHS we provide: Radiotherapy, in one of the world’s largest radiotherapy departments and at our radiotherapy centres in Oldham, Salford and Macclesfield. We are also home to the UK’s largest brachytherapy service and we are also the first NHS organisation in the UK to deliver high energy proton beam therapy. Chemotherapy, in the UK’s largest chemotherapy unit, as well as via 13 other sites and in patients’ homes. Highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer. A wide range of support and diagnostic services.”
Stockport Foodbank
Stockport Foodbank is part of The Trussell Trust’s network of 428 foodbanks, working to tackle food poverty and hunger in our local communities, as well as across the UK.
In 2021/22, The Trussell Trust’s Foodbank Network provided 2,173,158 three-day emergency food supplies and support to UK people in crisis. Of these, 832,109 went to children. With the cost of living crisis hitting communities hard this year, more help is needed than ever before.
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We’re incredibly proud to be able to donate this money to each of these amazing charities, which are under a tremendous amount of pressure. We hope our donation can go a little way to helping these charities in what is an unprecedented year for foodbank use, as more of us are turning to them for help.
If you would like more information on these charities or if you would like to donate food or money, please visit:
Christies NHS Foundation Trust (Cancer Research) – https://www.christie.nhs.uk/
Stockport Foodbank – https://stockport.foodbank.org.uk/
We’d like to thank these charities for their hard work and dedication, especially at this time.
