Winter fuel payments to be scrapped for many
Plans are to strip the winter fuel payment from 84% of pensioners who are living in poverty. There is an estimated 1.9 million pensioners in poverty, of whom only 300,000 are receiving pension credit and will continue to get winter fuel payments. That leaves 1.6 million pensioners not getting the payment. If you, your family […]
Another donation!
We’d like to thank Anne in Boston Spa for her amazing donation. Anne donated items from our wishlist for our food parcels. Thank you, it makes a huge difference!
Huge thanks for another donation
Massive thanks to Catherine Thompson and her wonderful, kind, caring children for this amazing donation! We are very grateful for their generosity. Many of us could learn a few things by listening to the younger generation wishing to support families struggling in our community! For more info on how to donate, head over to our […]
Help with our food parcels
We are currently in one of our busiest periods of the year. The long school holidays are a tough time for many and we are doing our best to support those in need with food parcels. We have a good supply of stock but are very short or out of the following items if anyone […]
Some lovely feedback
We recently received some lovely feedback from a family that we support: “Absolutely fantastic, thank you so much. It’s great to know someone is there if we need it, you do a fantastic service” These type of messages shows the importance of our work and makes it all worthwhile.
A huge thank you!
We’d like to say a huge thank you to Iain Barrett for the new mattress, John Hall for the new duvet from Amazon and a very special thanks to Johnny and his crew at North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service for their amazing support collecting and delivering for us. Team work!
Thank you Bon Bons, amazing donation!
Thanks so much for yet another fabulous large donation from Bon Bons. These delicious treats will be inside our food parcels, for those that we support.
Thanks to all our volunteers
A big shout out to our fabulous volunteers Val Hunter, Gill Clark & Rachel Ware who support us in collecting our donations week in, week out. Helping to sort and distribute to the many people we support in our community.
Another big thanks to aldi!
Thanks to Aldi in Knaresborough for partnering with us and assisting in donations for our food parcels.
Thank you Aldi
Thanks to Aldi for a fabulous donation today, lots of turkeys for the Christmas food parcels we will be delivering to the people we support. We are grateful for Aldis on-going support in assisting us to help those in need.