Couple dishes out food to vulnerable
ABIG-HEARTED Runcorn couple have helped vulnerable residents across the borough with a huge cooking effort that has produced more than 1,000 fresh meals to date.
Glyn and Linda Davies began making a few extra meals at the start of April but their efforts intensified as word spread and they teamed up with other groups trying to help those in need.
This expanded their range across Halton, and with help from Suzanne
Kavanagh at The Queen Of Hearts pub and the HOPE (Helping Ordinary People Everyday) group based in Widnes, vulnerable residents can now enjoy a diet complemented by fresh meals from the Davies kitchen including dishes such as pasta Bolognese, lentil soup, and chicken curry with rice.
Glyn, 54, who has worked in the pub and hospitality trade before, is furloughed at present from his job at Widnes Travelodge, but the couple are keen to dig in with the effort to help others during the pandemic.
They now spend about five hours three mornings a week preparing meals to be picked up and delivered.
The husband and wife team also helped out Halton General Hospital at the start but their services were no longer needed as staff needed snacks they could eat on the go fast.
Glyn said: “We started doing a few meals here and there and all of a sudden things start heading up and we do a few more and now we’re helping more people, vulnerable people stuck in, in the current climate.
“We work in conjunction with The Queen Of Hearts pubs.
“They do food parcels and we help.
“One of the girls Suzanne Kavanagh comes and takes them off with some of her food parcels.
“If we get a few messages through over someone we can help, we get the pans out and nock a few meals out.
“We’re doing the curries now (as we speak).
“We’re usually finished about 1pm and then the people come and collect them.”
He added: “People have started pulling together in the last few months and realised we’ve got to look out for each other.
“This is what we tend to do.
“We kind of look out for the vulnerable in the community who are stuck in.
“What we’re doing is we’re finding other people through The Queen Of Hearts who can’t get out and we pass them a couple of extra meals so they can have something different.
“It’s nice to get something you can throw in the oven.”