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HEREFORD'S COMMUNITY LARDER

WINTER 2012 APPEAL An appeal to Churches to provide urgently needed items of food has now been launched. Please use this poster if your Church, School or work place would like to take part. Every week Emergency Food Parcels are being supplied to families who are in serious and sudden hardship and there is a marked increase in need this year.

We always need tins of meat, tins of potatoes, tins of rice pudding and custard, jars of coffee and packets of dried milk and sugar

If you can help, or want more information contact Jackie Boys on 01432 373311 or j.boys@hereford.anglican.org

The Community Larder opened in February 2009 with the specific remit to offer crisis intervention to families and individuals facing financial hardship and unable, for whatever reason, to afford food.

Working with agencies across the City, the Community Larder operates under a referral system, whereby a voucher, issued through one of the partner agencies, can be exchanged for a bag of food.

The Churches in Hereford Diocese Action Team (CHAT) welcomes donations of food or cash and is constantly seeking new people willing to lend a hand with the project.

For more information about the project contact Jackie Boys, Social Responsibility Officer, on 01432 373311, or email: j.boys@hereford.anglican.org

The Growth of the Food Banks!

It's good to report that the Community Larder in Hereford is positively thriving thanks to the help it gets from people across the Diocese. A Community Larder is now operating in Ross on Wye and one will open shortly in Leominster..

Who would have thought that when the doors first opened on a bitterly cold day in February 2009 that the volunteers would pack up literally hundreds of bags of food and help hundreds of people needing support and a little kindness. In 2010 nearly 700 individuals received food

As well as exchanging food for vouchers at the Larder, numerous agencies now collect food parcels on behalf of their clients and in 2011 well over 100 boxes of food have been collected by social workers and other agencies in the county to deliver to families in crisis.

The comments we receive from the agencies reassure us time and time again that the work we are doing is valuable, not only in assisting some of the most vulnerable people in our communities, but also in enabling agencies to make their limited resources stretch further. As one social worker said, the Larder has given them an extra tool in their tool-box!