Food banks

Yes MissAdventure I agree with you. It is wrong to sell it.

I know we would like it not to be the case MissAdventure but I think my morals would be telling me different if my children were going without.

Yes, I agree. What's the point of a present you don't like or won't use if you have no money for other things. Plenty of people return unwanted gifts to shops for exchange, and this is no different, really.

Yammy

My DD contributes sanitary products to her food bank always very well come. We don't live near one but can contribute when doing the Sainsburys online shop.

I guess also, men's toiletries would be useful - disposable razors, etc?

I've seen media reports of single parent men looking after children - and working - finding it difficult to make ends meet. There was one recently... with small children growing out of shoes, etc. And a 'lost' jumper at school having to be replaced - if they have to be purchased from a specific shop, they are not cheap. I can imagine how the costs mount and eat up and a meagre budget might not stretch far enough to accommodate these extras, especially if they all come at once.

HousePlantQueen

JaneJudge

You can contribute pet food to the food bank too. I don't want to deprive poor people of pets. There is loads of evidence to suggest how having pets has a positive impact on people's mental health and well being.

Our FB has a big box of various pet foods for people to take if they need it. I can think of nothing worse than having to hand over a pet to a rescue because I couldn't afford to feed it

The cage for pet food etc at our local Tesco always seems fuller than the one for food for people!

I tend to forget to buy pet food because I don't have animals now but people do seem to be very generous.

Doodledog

MissAdventure

You can make your own by putting your pop sock full of soap into one of those string bags that veg (sprouts?) come in.
Exfoliate away to your hearts content.

We are nothing if not resourceful on here

If you do have leftover bits of yarn you can knit little bags, fill them with soap and they work well too.

I often wonder what happens to people who are housebound or who have mobility problems and cant easily get to a food bank or queue up. How do they find someoen to "refer" them.

I think a GP or Social Services make the referral, biglouis.

Volunteers will deliver if necessary.

biglouis

I often wonder what happens to people who are housebound or who have mobility problems and cant easily get to a food bank or queue up. How do they find someoen to "refer" them.

Hopefully they are in touch with their GP who will most likely refer them to the appropriate department within the welfare system.

biglouis

I often wonder what happens to people who are housebound or who have mobility problems and cant easily get to a food bank or queue up. How do they find someoen to "refer" them.

As long as somebody is referred (can be a GP, social worker, police etc) our foodbank will deliver if the person is unable to present in person. We recently had a young man attend who hadn't been referred, was obviously genuine, homeless and in great need, we supplied him with ring-pull cans of food he was happy to eat cold. Nothing is written in stone, flexibility is a given. We are a Trussell Trust food bank.

And...

Imagine this if you will; the people who deliver may have big cars!!!

Apparently, since supermarkets don't have sell by dates on some fresh products, less is being donated to food banks. I guess that's a win for the supermarkets but not the food banks.