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We have been overwhelmed by all your kind and generous donations, they made such a huge difference at Christmas. Your Reverse Advent Calendars helped to create lots of special festive boxes for people referred to us by local professional organisations. Thanks to everyone who donated trolley loads of food to the supermarkets, this was started by members of the travelling community who were challenging each other to carry out incredible acts of kindness by donating to foodbanks. Special thanks to all the individuals, local organisations & businesses, schools, nurseries, churches, council employees, St Breward Brownies and Relish who donated so generously. Thank you to all our dedicated volunteers who sorted the food to ensure the festive boxes were distributed. This involved lots of heavy lifting and loads of extra hours.

We recently received a generous donation from the Rotary Club of Bodmin as well as lots of boxes of biscuits. With your help we Huge thanks to everyone donating to the are able to provide food Pirate FM Tonne of Tins campaign throughout boxes to people in need in our February, we are so grateful. community. A crisis can happen to anyone Great to meet Nick & Izzie who visited our and thanks to your support we Foodbank with the fantastic donation. can continue to help restore dignity & revive hope.

Wadebridge Foodbank, Unit 2 Trevanson Street, Wadebridge, . PL27 7AR. Tel: 01208 815374 www.wadebridgefoodbank.org / [email protected] Registered Charity Number: 1166301 ( & Wales)

**SAVE THE DATE** Foodbank Drop-in Times Join us at our Bodmin Fun Camping Weekend at Bodmin Christian Fellowship Mother Ivey’s Bay Holiday Park Berrycoombe Road Bodmin PL31 2NS Fri 14th –Sun 16th June 2019 Mon & Weds 1pm-3pm

More info & tickets available soon... Camelford St Thomas’ Church THANK YOU Tuesdays 2pm-4pm FOR ALL YOUR GENEROUS DONATIONS

Wadebridge Unit 2, Trevanson Street Wadebridge PL27 7AR Mon-Thurs 10am-1pm

Do you need help with budgeting? JOIN OUR FREE & FRIENDLY MONEYBOX COURSE. We can help provide the knowledge & skills to get on top of your finances and Huge thanks to Wadebridge Lions Club for their help create a CV. veryBehind generous the donation beauty ofto Cornwall,our Foodbank. Pictured people are living in poverty. here from left to right are: Alan Steel, Jacqui 1st March—Budgeting Course White, Tony Rish, Philip Mitchell, Gary Crowley 22nd March—CV & Interview Course and Chris Hodges. Join us for 3 or 6 sessions, we’re a We are so grateful for all your donations friendly bunch and we provide tea, at our Tesco Collection and to the Rotary coffee & refreshments. Club of Wadebridge who helped at this event. For more information, please give us a A whopping 1.6 tonnes of food was call at Wadebridge Foodbank on donated at the & Wadebridge 01208 815374 or email us at stores at the Christmas collection. [email protected]

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