Volunteers in plea to keep helping the vulnerable
VOLUNTEERS who have helped to feed hundreds of vulnerable residents need a ‘miracle’ to keep going as they only have enough cash to operate a few more days.
For the past ten weeks the Guardians of Stubbs’ Pool Well in Isolation project has ensured that 300 vulnerable and shielding residents across the Camp Hill and wider Nuneaton area have had food.
But the volunteers are running so low on funding they face being forced to stop by the end of this week.
Sioux Watkins, chair of the group, said it was with a ‘heavy heart’ that they were facing the prospect of stopping the project they’d been running for 10 weeks.
She said: “We are unable to continue past this week without funding.
“We have around 300 individuals dependant on our care packages due to isolation and are now taking steps to ensure there is adequate support for their health and well being.
“Our project costs around £600 per week to fund and is run by two full-time volunteers and one parttime unpaid volunteer.”
“We need a miracle now to help us continue, we have grant funding arriving but I don’t know when,” the chair added.
“Please please please help us to continue to be the light in the darkness for the members of our community that need our support.”
The group has not only been delivering emergency parcels of food, they have also organised cream teas for residents as well as special parcels on VE Day.
The volunteers have also set up a pen pal project with youngsters writing letters to isolated and shielding OAPS.
Anyone who can help the programme and donate any funds should log on to the gofundme page.