Helping customers, delivering food and sending care parcels... It’s all in a day’s work for Julie
Generous supermarket staff are making sure vulnerable residents and frontline workers are being well looked after during the pandemic.
Julie Scott, who is the community champion for Morrisons in Johnstone, has been working round the clock to hand out donations to those in need.
She has been dropping off goods at care homes in the area and sending care packages to the Bowfield and Lynnhurst hotels - where NHS staff have been staying while helping fight the virus at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Alongside her colleague Jackie Docherty, she has also helped to coordinate the Napier Street store’s Doorstep Delivery service, which provides essential items to vulnerable people in the community.
Johnstone woman Julie, who has worked at the store for ten years, is delighted she is still able to help the community during lockdown.
She said: “I am so glad I am able to continue my work helping people as the store’s community champion.
“Especially just now when people need it the most.
“We started off collecting donations for Renfrewshire Foodbank and then we decided to start collecting things for staff and residents in care homes in the area.
“I have also been stopping by hotels where NHS staff are staying while working in the hospitals to give care packages as they are having to stay away from their families.
“I have always had a really good connection with the community in my five years as community champion.
“I am so glad I am still able to get out there and help people, even while the lockdown is ongoing.
“People have just been fantastic in helping get these donations to those who need it.”
Items have been delivered to Renfrewshire Foodbank and the Salvation Army thanks to a pledge by Morrisons to provide £1,000 of goods each week.
The donations for the area’s care homes, NHS staff and vulnerable residents were all collected by generous members of the public.
Julie - who works full time at the store - says she has been left overwhelmed by the support from people.
She added: “It is really nice that people are still helping as much as they can, especially as a lot of people are also struggling themselves.
“It just shows that we are all in this together.”
I am so glad I am still able to get out there and help people, even while the lockdown is ongoing