A CHESTER law firm is calling for the city’s businesses to come together to support a food bank organisation.
Hillyer McKeown is supporting the Chester and Ellesmere Port Food Bank, which is to be a permanent fixture in the area and will provide emergency food for people in crisis.
Partners of the food bank include children’s centres, the Citizens Advice Bureau and The Salvation Army, which will identify people in crisis and issue vouchers which can be exchanged at the food bank.
Food boxes will contain three days of nutritionally balanced, non-perishable foods such as tinned fruit, vegetables, meat and fish as well as pasta, cereal, UHT milk, sauces, tea and long-life juice.
Richard Burnett, head of marketing and client development at Hillyer McKeown, said: “As a business at the heart of the local community, we felt compelled to get involved with such a vital and worthwhile cause.
“It can be all too easy at this festive time of year to forget there are those living alongside us in our community for whom Christmas won’t be a time of enjoyment this year.
“We’ve started with a significant tin donation to the appeal and will be supporting food bank in various ways.”
He added: “We would like to ask all businesses in the city to get involved and show your support and to broadcast and circulate the message of this local appeal as part of your festive communications.”
Food bank clients receive a maximum of three food vouchers in a row. They can receive up to nine vouchers per year, although longer-term support is available in exceptional circumstances. The food bank works with various supporting agencies to refer clients in order to help resolve the underlying cause of their crisis.
If you would like to get involved, search #TinsNotTinsel on Twitter.
