Knowsley Foodbank has been awarded a £1,000 donation from Vodafone UK. The charity collected the Vodafone Community Connection Award this week after the store team in Huyton chose the deserving cause.
Launched in 2014, Vodafone’s Community Connection Awards have already made a difference to more than 170 local communities across the UK. Selected by local Vodafone staff and aimed at supporting local causes with a £1,000 donation, the awards have been used to help fund everything from new equipment for soup kitchens and day centres for the elderly to helping people with disabilities take part in sporting activities.
Knowsley Foodbank is part of a nationwide network of food banks working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. They provide three days’ worth of nutritionally balanced emergency meals to local people who are referred by doctors, health visitors, social works and police. The £1,000 will help Knowsley Foodbank support over 70 people with three days’ worth of meals.
Sue Torpey, Assistant Chief Executive at Knowsley Foodbank said, “We are extremely grateful to Vodafone for choosing us as their Community Connection Award winner. Each year we feed around 8,000 people – half of whom are children – in and around Huyton and it is through the generosity of companies like Vodafone that we are able to continue with this work”
Zafar Ul-Haq, Vodafone Store Manager in Huyton said, “In our current financial climate and just after the festive period, a lot of families find their budgets stretched which leaves people struggling to provide basic necessities such as food. We are delighted the £1,000 will be going to a charity that will massively help to ease this pressure in Huyton.”
