Metro (UK)

JADE WRIGHT

GIVES A SHOUT OUT TO SOME OF THOSE AMAZING PEOPLE HELPING THEIR NEIGHBOURS IN NEED

- MIDLANDS NORTH SOUTH EAST

Beacon Centre For The Blind has been supporting people with sight loss for 145 years. Volunteers have been delivering the talking newspaper service to over 110 people every week, walking dogs, helping people access food, making and delivering hundreds of meals, as well as offering vital welfare calls to people they’d usually support faceto-face. busier than ever, picking up unwanted food from businesses and distributi­ng it to people in need, and those who can’t leave

their homes. trjfpbrum.com

Hickory’s has raised £50,000 justgiving.com/ campaign/foodonfrid­ay north Wales, raised more than £50,000 in just one week to help families in need. It’s been cooking and delivering hundreds of free hot meals to families who need some extra support. justgiving.com/ fundraisin­g/hickorysca­shforkids

When the lockdown started, community cookery school codirector­s Stephanie Hayman and Pieter van Zyl started feeding their neighbours with stocks from their kitchens. This has grown to delivering 80–110 meals a day to elderly and shielded people in and around Deal and Sandwich. chequersde­al.co.uk

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Newcastle-based Road To Recovery has been delivering 450 free healthy meals cooked at their recovery café, George Street Social, every Friday since lockdown.
HICKORY’S
Cheshire-based family restaurant group Hickory’s Smokehouse, which has sites across the North West, Midlands and
beaconvisi­on.org Smokin’: Newcastle-based Road To Recovery has been delivering 450 free healthy meals cooked at their recovery café, George Street Social, every Friday since lockdown. HICKORY’S Cheshire-based family restaurant group Hickory’s Smokehouse, which has sites across the North West, Midlands and

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