MOBILE ZONE REPAIRS FLYNN'S FAITH IN HUMANITY WITH A WELCOME DONATION TO LOCAL FOODBANKS

Today is one of those days when my faith in humanity was restored, a simple generous act that means that the less fortunate will benefit from it.

On Saturday I was talking to Mike Young the owner of Mobile Zone on Church Street in Eccles, the shop sells and repairs mobile phones with a large stock of phone accessories.

Mike told me that they had accidentally over charged a customer by £40 for a repair to his phone, and immediately contacted him to apologise for the error and to refund the money.

Rather than becoming irate the customer thanked Mike for his honesty and asked him to donate the £40 to the charity of his choice, what a wonderful gesture!

Having read of our work in raising money for local foodbanks, Mike kindly offered the money to me for distribution and asked me to call in his shop today, which I did, and this is where the feel good factor comes in.

Mike gave me the £40 and then said he would match the money and donated another £40 to make a whopping £80, an outstanding act of generosity, which left me temporarily lost for words.

I told him the money would be shared between local foodbanks, including The Mustard Tree, Emmanuel Church Foodbank and The Unemployed Resource Centre Breakfast Club, all of them provide a much needed service to the less fortunate.

salford.media would like to thank Mike from the bottom of our hearts for this wonderful gesture, a selfless act which means people will eat this week in Eccles.

Far be it from me to suggest that if you are passing his shop, 47 Church Street you call in and either thank him or even better you purchase something from his shop, and you will be supporting local business, you know it makes sense.