The Christmas campaign for Woking Foodbank is now well underway and the trolley cart kindly donated by Homebase - Brookwood branch and created into a sleigh by my very good friend and member of Brookwood Club, Phil Bayliss had it's very first outing today to the local butchers, being Fulk Bros in Connaught Road, Brookwood. Fulk butchers have very kindly donated some lovely products including pasta sauce and luxury gravy to name but a few items. I wouldn't mind some of those myself!!!!
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| Fulk Bros, family business established 1927 |
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| Tony Ward, Manager of Fulk Bros, Brookwood |
Tony Ward the Brookwood manager has been working for Fulk Butchers for in excess of 40 years and he told me that he started in Fulk's in 1972, I was, but a toddler then!!!
Family co-owner Jo, told me that the business will be celebrating a fantastic 91 years in business this year, moving to Brookwood from Woking in 1927, my word that's clearly a sign of a very good business.
Fulk Bros is a family run business and some of the Brookwood residents probably know the other co-owner Tony Fulk. Jo tells me that the business would not be what it is today without the support from all the team at Fulk Bros along with Judy Fulk, and the managers of both Brookwood and Pirbright stores, Tony (pictured) and Steve.
Having asked Jo the question - did you know about the foodbank? Jo responded "The Foodbank creates a sense of community helpfulness which can sometimes form the backbone of small villages such as Brookwood" - and you know Jo is absolutely right, this is just one occasion when Brookwood village really comes into its own and shows that sense of togetherness. Everyone wants to help and together we achieve great things......have I said that before? probably, but to be honest it's true so may be if I keep quoting it more great things will happen.
This campaign never ceases to amaze me from the generosity of everyone and also the emotional attachment that it seems to have and the lovely comments that I have had from everyone reading the blogs. To start with like everything I was not sure how it was going to be received, but oddly it seems to be working, so I will continue....
So over the weekend I was contacted by Rob at Woking News and Mail asking if they can run a feature on the campaign, well of course the answer is YES, YES, YES.........ooo did I sound proper excited, well that's because I am, this can only be good, more coverage for the campaign, so stay tuned for more info....... here is a copy of the snippet from last year's News and Mail covering the foodbank warehouse from which you will see that the Foodbank closed it doors for food donations following the influx of donations and interestingly reading the article from 21st December 2017 it states that the Foodbank was then helping 25 families and individuals a week, that has now increased to 30 families and individuals per week which can only mean that the percentage has increased yet again over the period of a year and that in itself is pretty darn scary!!
The thing is it could be any one of us at any time, at the moment you may have a belly full of food, but you never know when your circumstances could change on the spin of a coin. I hope it does not change for you, but you never really know, do you????
My first radio interview starts this coming Wednesday 7th November with Jon Andrews of Radio Woking, be sure to tune in from 8am to hear all about the campaign, how you can get involved and of course donate. You can tune in via DAB or internet by clicking this link: Radio Woking
In the meantime, just as a reminder, my drop off points for food parcels are Brookwood Club, really friendly members club in the heart of the village, but they will welcome you with food parcels and you never know, if you are not a member you may consider asking the bar steward for an application form and of course Brookwood Post Office/Bakers Dozen, why not stop, have a coffee and a bit of cake whilst dropping off your parcel.....
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