WHOLESALER BOOSTING FOOD BANKS

A big-hearted wholesaler has been inspired by food bank football superstar Marcus Rashford to help hard-up families across Conwy through Christmas and the New Year.

Harlech Foodservices, which has bases at Criccieth and Chester, loaded up its delivery vans to drop off an impressive list of provisions at food banks at the Conwy Food Bank at Colwyn Bay.

It included boxes of

Weetabix, packets of Chilli Con Carne sauce, bread roll mix, Hot Chocolate, and a host of other items.

Nancy Hughes, Coordinator of the Conwy Food Bank, in Rhiw Road, Colwyn Bay, one of the first set up in North Wales, said: “We cover the whole of Conwy county and this year has been very busy with Covid so we very much welcome the support from Harlech.

“Last month we provided 152 food parcels, 52 of them were for families who

needed food to help feed a total of 117 children, but there were also 85 single people and 15 couples.

“We used to distribute to five drop-off points across the county but many people are vulnerable now and so we now go to many people’s homes because they’re shielding.

“Harlech approached us to see if they could help out and we were very pleased to accept - it’s been overwhelming how generous people have been.”

The deliveries were co-ordinated by Ceri Brown, Harlech Foodservices Digital

Project Manager, who said: “We have often donated to food banks but with the

pandemic the need is so great and inspired by Marcus Rashford we wanted to do more.

“The effect of the recent lockdown was to leave us with plenty of stock so we have made arrangements and delivered to the Conwy Food Bank at Colwyn Bay, our local food bank at Pwllheli and the Cheshire Food Hub at Northwich.

“We’d like to work with more food banks across our area of operation across

North and Mid Wales and into Shropshire and the North West but we feel this was a good start and maintains our relationship with these three.

“But it is an ongoing project because a lot of people out there are facing really tough times and we’d like to carry on doing our bit to help them.”

For more on Harlech Foodservices go to the website www.harlech.co.uk/ and for the Conwy Food Bank go to conwyfoodbank. co.uk/