Volunteers at Porch have been working tirelessly throughout December to get hundreds of food packs ready for distribution. If you’d like to support Porch you can still donate items at any one of our local drop off points or funds via our webpage.
Click below to see our appeal for help in the Bury Times
The Porch Box volunteers have been busy over the summer as the demand for crisis food packs stays high. The agencies we deal with tell us that many families are struggling to feed children during the school holidays. Today a support worker based in a local primary school described how she is continuing to work voluntarily to keep in touch with her families during the summer holiday and told us that she is receiving more requests for help from families who have always managed in the past and have no experience of the benefits system.
We now have collection boxes for non-perishable food in six local supermarkets and receive some surplus fresh food. These are important weekly sources of donations and we thank the supermarkets for their help. However we still spend around £1000 every month buying in enough food to meet demand. The harvest collections from schools and churches should be a great help in the autumn.
Our main weekly volunteer session is on a Wednesday morning and today was very typical, with nearly a hundred crisis packs delivered to eleven different agencies.
The 2017 annual report and accounts has been published following the Annual General Meeting. You can read the report here, and see some feedback from our user agencies.
Porch Boxes are the proud recipient of a Bury Council Star Award for ‘Volunteers of the Year’. The Award was collected by our chairman, Julia, and her right hand man Frank (pictured).
Bury Council STAR ( Special Thanks & Recognition) Awards are used to identify individuals and teams who are making the difference and going the extra mile.
Thank you and congratulations to all of our volunteers.
The annual report for 2017 will be presented at the Porch Boxes AGM. The report summarises all of the activities, donations and expenditures for the year and the AGM is open to all who have an interest in Porch Boxes. If you’re an old friend to the charity, or just want to find out more about what we do, please come along.
When: 7:00pm Tuesday 20th March 2018
Where: Bridge Methodist Church, Milltown Street, Radcliffe, M26 1WD
We give out an average of 450 each month. Since we started in 2001, over 50000 packs have been given out. We are very grateful to the churches, schools, groups and individuals for supporting us in our quest to help local people.
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