As food banks and frontline charities face up to their hardest Christmas ever, people in Fermanagh are being urged to give the gift of their time and take part in the UK’s biggest food donation drive.
The Tesco Food Collection is taking place in all Tesco stores from December 1 to 3 and the Trussell Trust and FareShare are urging volunteers to sign-up to support the event in store.
It comes as both charities face an unprecedented demand for food. The Trussell Trust, which has the largest foodbank network in the UK, has seen a 46 per cent increase in the number of food parcels given out in recent months, while FareShare has a growing list of thousands more frontline charities seeking food.
Volunteers are needed to staff the collection points, because when volunteers are present they collect considerably more food.
You can sign up to volunteer with FareShare at https://fareshare.org.uk/foodcollection/ or with the Trussell Trust at https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-involved/tesco-food-collection/volunteer/
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