Food appeal packs out home with donations
GOODS FLOOD IN FOR FOOD BANK
THE owners of an Ilkeston pub have had their home taken over by cereal, pasta and toilet rolls after appealing for donations for a food bank.
Tracie Smith and her husband Steven, who runs the Gladstonian micro bar, have been unable to move for bags and bags of food after putting out an appeal to the community.
Helping to sort the donations are manageress Cassie Coombes and neighbour Michelle Beardsley.
The Gladstonian micro bar in South Street is currently awaiting a full refurb and a grand opening date, so Tracie and Cassie decided to organise a community drive in aid of the Arena church food bank in the town.
A post was sent out and shared on Facebook and they’ve had a remarkable response from friends, family and complete strangers highlighting what can really happen when people come together. They’re now asking a wider area to help if they can, to donate as much as they can. Tracie is taking donations at her home and can be contacted via the Gladstonian micro bar page on Facebook but is also encouraging wellwishers to take donations directly to the food bank at the hub in Belfield Street.
“We would like to give thanks to everyone that has donated, especially Daftaft Boot Camp, Footprints Football Team and Stephen’s Deli-liscious who all rallied around and donated,” Tracie said. She added: “Our kitchen has been taken over and looked like a supermarket.”
“Cassie, our manageress, and Michelle, our perfect neighbour, said, ‘ We would love to do this every year’ and when the Gladstonian is up and running, December 2021 will be ‘bring a tin’ month so this wonderful project can be as good if not better than this year because as we all know so well, anything has to be better than 2020. “From all at the Gladstonian, Tracie, Cassie and Michelle, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year.”
Our kitchen has been taken over and looked like a supermarket.
Tracie Smith