Worcestershire-based accountancy firm, Ballards LLP, have assisted Worcester Food bank by wrapping gifts in advance of Mother’s Day. This year, the food bank will be giving out Mother’s Day presents in addition to food and supplies.
Ruth Allsopp, Operations Coordinator at Worcester Food Bank had this to say:
“At Worcester Foodbank our volunteers are always looking for ways to make the most of donations we have received and bring a little bit of joy to our clients during difficult times. A prime example is in 2021 one of our volunteers, Heather Green, noticed a stock of toiletry gift sets stored away in one of the corners of the warehouse and suggested that we could wrap these up and give one to each client in the lead up to Mother’s and Father’s Day.
We know from talking to our clients that they aren’t often able to afford to treat that special person who has supported them, or often they are a parent who forgoes all luxuries to ensure their family doesn’t go without.
We hoped these gifts would bring a smile to our clients faces, and we’ve got this reaction, sometimes tears too but happy of course.
Since then, we have put any appropriate gifts to one side throughout the year and started wrapping them in the spring. This year we had accumulated 13 crates of lovely gifts and were so grateful when Ballards offered to wrap them for us. As we are volunteers at the Food Bank, there is only a certain amount of capacity and wrapping this number of gifts would have taken many hours. They have done a beautiful job.”
Ballards Business Services Partner Ben Allman said, “The Ballards team is very community-focused, and we all recognise the extreme pressure that local communities are currently under, with many having to make the brave choice to ask for assistance. We were extremely grateful to have been asked to help.”
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Bev Rachel – Payroll Administrator at Ballards LLP, Heather Green – Duty Manager at Worcester Food Bank and Steven Jones – Business Development Partner at Ballards LLP