Donation plea for foodbank
Collection in St Kessog’s Square
Generous Strath locals will be asked to support families in need during a collection this weekend.
A collection in aid of the Perth and Kinross Foodbank will take place from 10am to noon in Comrie’s St Kessog’s Square on Saturday.
Donations will be passed to the foodbank’s distribution base in Crieff, which is located in the Logos Youth Centre on High Street and is open from 1.30pm to 3pm on Tuesdays and 10am to 11.30am on Fridays.
A spokesperson said: “Locals will be on-hand to give interested folk more information and to take donations to help those in our community who are in need.
“The Crieff foodbank distribution centre is particularly busy due to hold ups with universal credit and housing or rent issues.
“They are always running short of the same items – long-life milk, fruit juice, main meals, coffee and cereal.
“They are always grateful for toiletries and any gifts or extras for Christmas.”
The foodbank provides three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred by various frontline professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers and Citizens’ Advice.
Between April 2016 and February this year, the Perth and Kinross Foodbank – located next to Perth Theatre within the Fair City’s Cutlog Vennel – distributed 1997 food parcels. These fed more than 2725 adults and 1016 children.
The spokesperson for the local collection added: “The organisers are hoping that folk in Strathearn will give generously and support local shops while buying their donations for the foodbank.”
A September collection in Comrie saw hundreds of pounds-worth of items donated.