Foodbank’s £5k boost
The team at the Perth and Kinross Foodbank has welcomed a £5,000 donation to help improve its city centre facilities.
The foodbank received the donation from The Screwfix Foundation, a charity which supports community-based projects by helping them to repair, maintain and improve their facilities.
The foodbank operates from Cutlog Vennel, helping to provide emergency food packages to people across Perth and Kinross. The financial support will also help go towards repairing a delivery van.
Last year the foodbank donated 3,400 emergency packages for those in need.
Eleanor Kelleher, project co-ordinator from the Perth and Kinross Foodbank Left-to-right: Marc Whiting, duty manager at Screwfix Perth, Marc Whiting, duty manager at Screwfix Perth, Marjorie Clark, secretary of Perth and Kinross Foodbank, and Eleanor Kelleher, project co-ordinator at Perth and Kinross Foodbank. Pic: Graeme Hart said:“We are very grateful to The Screwfix Foundation for donating these muchneeded funds.
“The Perth and Kinross Foodbank is a charity that provides nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people in a crisis. We’d like to thank everyone who was involved in the fundraising - it’s been a great help to us.”
Ben Bennett, manager of Screwfix at the Inveralmond industrial estate, added: “We are really please that one of our local charities has been awarded funding by The Screwfix Foundation.
“Staff from across the business have held a variety of fundraising events to raise vital funds for The Screwfix Foundation.”