CAN YOU HELP AS BRIGG FOOD BANK EXPANDS TO MEET RISING DEMAND?

Brigg Food Bank tells us it would really appreciate YOUR help as it continues to assist needy people living in the town and the surrounding area. The number of food parcels issued can be 'upward of 50 a week' while more than 100 Christmas hampers recently helped households. People can donate items and/or contribute to a new fund to help with the infrastructure (full details appear below). Brigg Food Bank is faced with rising demand for its services.


FROM HANNAH DOBSON, BRIGG FOOD BANK

The Brigg Food Bank, which is run in conjunction by Oikos Brigg (registered charity 1184594) and the local mutual aid group, has had the need to expand during 2020/21 due to the increased demand seen across the area and also the growing need of the support for the families helped by Brigg Children’s Centre which relies on donated food from the people of Brigg in order to supply their food parcels.
The number of parcels going out to families, couples and single people varies week on week depending on individual situations but some weeks this can be upward of 50 food parcels in one week, and we cover a large area surrounding Brigg, too. Over Christmas, we sent over 100 hampers to households to support over the Christmas period. The need also increases over school holidays, too.
Due to this increased demand, a need for a place to store the food was required and thanks to the kind support of DFDS Seaways Immingham who have donated a 45 foot storage container for us to store the food in, we are some way there in achieving this goal.
Thanks also to Nick Du Val, owner of Fun Forest Brigg, who has let us utilise his land for us to keep this container on.
Thanks also to UK Container Repairs who made sure the container was fully fit for use and arranged transport via Hansard Haulage; and, finally, Adam and the team at Countryside Services who kindly cleared the area for us to put the container on.
We are now in a position where the container requires kitting out in order to insulate it and ensure it is fit for use.
We have already been donated the fitting of the electrics and all the relevant materials by Jamie Moss at JTM Electrical, together with the labour offered by Jack Quirke (J Quirke Drylining & Building Services LTD) and Mark Dawson (Wrawby Handyman Services). 

There has been a generous donation of wood by Bennetts Timber, Brigg.
We are unable to start the work on the container until we have the required materials (insulation, ply and lats) which we currently have a crowdfunding for.
We are looking to raise at least £1,500 to help with the purchase of the materials and we also have the hope that one (or a few) of the local wood yards may have materials they can donate or provide to us at a discount.
If you’d like to discuss materials, you can contact Hannah Dobson on hannah.rebecchi@gmail.com and you can donate to the crowdfunding appeal at the following link
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/brigg-food-bank
The support the Food Bank has received this year is incredible; we have a reasonable supply of donations currently and this is thanks to the generous people of Brigg and surrounding area.
You are able to drop off items at...

• Tesco in Brigg.
• Brian’s DIY, Wrawby Street.
• One Stop Shop, Atkinson Avenue.
• Barclays Bank, Market Place.
• Ecigworld, Wrawby Street
• And there are also private residences in Broughton and Wrawby, too.

Thank you for any support you can provide on getting the container up and running; this is such a big project and the support of the community is paramount in enabling us to achieve it.

PICTURED: DFDS Seaways has donated a storage container on a site provided by Fun Forest, Brigg. Countryside Services cleared the area where it  is located.