Hello to you all,

Another interesting week, I hope you have managed to dodge the showers and it hasn't interrupted your week too much!

Certainly for our team we had a bit of fun unloading a large donation of washing products during a downpour, fortunately most of the team were able to stay dry!!😁

A big Thank You to Procter & Gamble for the donation of products, our friends at GXO logistics for moving the donation and to Dave at Freight Management for storing the donation for us. This donation of washing products will make such a difference to the people we are serving.

A BIG Thank you to Karen, Linda, Iain, Helen and Janice who staffed our collection at ASDA last weekend, their time and effort is really appreciated to boost the donations and they did really well collecting 29 crates of food across the two days of collection.

Sadly last week we also had to spend £1,800 on replenishing our stocks and with our numbers still at an increase of 7.5% on last year, our teams are working hard to keep up with the demand.

Our Warehouse teams are making up more food parcels each week and each week our teams at the centres are meeting more people that need our help. I can also confirm being at our centre in Grays, we can see more people are in real need of help and advice. We served 12 people in our two hour session and saw how important it is to provide a welcoming environment where people can receive the help and support they need for their situation.

As the demand continues our donations are down by 20%!, we are short of some basic items:. 

These items are:
Tinned Meat (Spaghetti Bolognese, Curry, Stews, Hot Dogs etc)
Noodles
Packet Mash

Fruit Juice
Tinned Fruit
Long Life Milk
Custard
Desserts (Rice Pudding, Jelly, Sponge Puddings)

We really value your continued support with any donations whether it be by a financial donation or a food donation.

However large or small, as the saying goes. "Every Little Helps" It all goes towards our work seeking to bless the community of Thurrock

If you require any further information or would to discuss any aspect of our work in more detail, please do not hesitate to contact me,

Thank you so much for your support. It means so much to us.

Wishing you all a good Week