MIKE'S GENEROUS CASH DONATION HELPS LOCAL FOODBANKS

Following on with the story of how local business man, Mike Young the owner of Mobile Zone, Eccles kindly gave us £80 to help local foodbanks, today we shared the money out.

We first called at The Unemployed Centre on Liverpool Road, Eccles to see Ellen Barker who runs the Breakfast Club at the rear of the building, who for four days a week provides a free breakfast for people who use the facilities.

Ellen told us:

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"I am so grateful to Mike for this money which will be spent on bacon, eggs, sausages, beans etc to make a traditional English breakfast this Thursday, on the other days we are open except Wednesdays, I make tea, coffee, cereal and toast.

We are now experiencing cold weather and a warm breakfast is exactly what they need and is possibly the only hot meal they will eat that day, ideally I would love to give them a full breakfast every day but finances dictate, once again Mike, many thanks from everybody here"

 

The next stop was at The Emmanuel Church, Langworthy Road, Salford who run a much needed foodbank each Wednesday morning and is currently helping at least 50 families a week.

It was set up in 2011 at the Langworthy Community Church by Yvonne and Martin Simms and is now based in the newly built Emmanuel Church.

Yvonne told us:

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" We are delighted to receive this much needed money from Mike and we thank him from the bottom of our hearts, we are seeing a sharp increase in the number of visitors to the foodbank, one of our users are a family with six children and it's heart breaking to see this.

Sadly I can't see an end to this situation, but we all have to rally round and help as much as we can and we will never turn anybody away"

 

Yvonne told me that she has an allotment off Tootal Drive, were she grows vegetables including potatoes, carrots, onions which she takes to the foodbank to help out, also she has chickens whose eggs are also given away to users of the foodbank.

What a wonderful woman to do all this unpaid work for the less needy and she carries on with a smile on her face, a shining example to us all.

If you can help your local foodbank and sadly there are enough of them, please dig out a few cans from your cupboard also toiletries are in big demand, soap, toothpaste, tampons etc and please give generously.

Cheers!