At the beginning of the lockdown, the #LoveYourNeighbour campaign was launched: a collaboration of volunteers, churches, schools, hospitals, charities, businesses, local councils and others across the UK to deliver food and necessities and provide support for those in need during the pandemic.
“The church resembles a supermarket, with supplies coming in from local partners, and teams each day bagging up and delivering hampers to 20 hostels. Last week alone, we delivered 698 food hampers, including 2022 ready meals, plus an additional 403 hot meals at Safehaven Men and Safehaven Saturday.” – St Peter’s Brighton
Unfortunately, I can’t embed videos; but you can see some of the details of what’s going on at their website’s Stories page.
If you want to volunteer or need help, you can contact one of their centres.
I’ve been meaning to write this post for weeks, but kept having more time-relevant ideas for posts which took priority. However with all the discussion of free school meals and food poverty in the news in the last few days (and the fact that it’s been a while since I posted something like this) has prompted me to finally do this!