FOODBANK COLLECTIONS
The pandemic and recession are creating a lot of hardship in our area with families in need of food and other basic essentials. To help alleviate this Shirley Lions hold regular foodbank collections where we ask local residents to leave non perishable food items on their doorstep which we then collect and deliver to our local Foodbank. Routes are chosen and members then deliver leaflets to all the homes on their routes advising that we will be calling back on the next Sunday morning to collect donations. All the food collected is then delivered to our local Foodbank on the Monday morning. As the leaflets are posted through letterboxes and we ask for the food donations to be left on door steps there is no interaction with householders, so maintaining social distancing and avoiding the possibility of spreading Covid. The leaflet also advises that if householders would rather make a cash donation then this can we done via the Donations page on our website Shirley Lions Club - How to make a donation
The results of our collections so far have been:
| Date of collection | Weight of food collected | Monetary value of food collected |
| September 2020 | 674 kg | £1132 |
| October 2020 | 409kg | £689 |
| November 2020 | 1036kg | £1742 |
| December 2020 | 1400kg | £2338 |
| March 2021 | 390kg | £658 |
| April 2021 | 751kg | £1264 |
| May 2021 | 412kg | £695 |
| June 2021 | 459kg | £773 |
| October 2021 | 348kg | £584 |
| November 2021 | 654kg | £1100 |
| January 2022 | 621kg | £1043 |
| February 2022 | 345kg | £580 |
| September 2022 | 128kg | £208 |
| February 2023 | 526kg | £884 |
