This week, I would like to dedicate my blog to the very hard working Emma Cogger, she has worked tirelessly with the posters, I have sent Emma a rough idea of what I would like and sometimes within minutes, they are back looking all beautiful and pretty. Well it's now the 1st October, which means that the Brookwood Village Christmas Foodbank Campaign, (which it is now known as) kicks off in only 3 weeks time, so I guess I best get my butt into gear and get those all important posters up and sent off to the people that need them. My article has been produced in the village newsletter so guess people will be stopping me in the village again, asking me - "are you the foodbank lady"? and the answer to that is -absolutely 😉 So for now you need to concentrate of the first poster CAN YOU HELP? hopefully this will be met with a massive yes. As a community we can achieve great things...
So what's it all about, well hopefully the posters will say it all, but, I think we have all heard about the Foodbank at one time or another and in my eyes in this day and age it is so sad that people have to end up there, but I guess it could be any one of us at any time.....So the foodbank is not for regular users, but for people in crisis, you can be referred via various sources, such as, your GP, Social Services, Woking Borough Council, Citizens Advice etc. You are then provided with vouchers which you can spend in Woking Foodbank located in the High Street (for those that knew the old Courts Furniture place, its that building) at The Lighthouse, Sheerwater Hub or indeed The Salvation Army in Goldsworth Park and all food is marked down to a very cheap price.
Now my posters will help getting the word out there, which hopefully you will agree, Emma has very kindly prepared several for me this year, which are below. Hopefully they will make good sense to you, but as the weeks go on through the campaign I will explain more in detail. So this week's blog is going to be short....cos I want to make sure that I don't bore you all to death and you come back for more and more each week.
Check out Emma's posters below, which will be going on display in several locations throughout Brookwood Village later this week in good time for the last week of October and also various companies....
As mentioned previously the Christmas campaign officially starts on the last week of October which is of course Halloween week, so if you happen to have any halloween treats leftover, be sure to put them into the food parcel for the foodbank, sweeties will be lovely for the little ones.
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| Yes, donated, I know, will let you know how that happened in next week's blog |
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| These are all the local companies that donated last year... |
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