Pan Together has received 2 generous donations of family food to support vulnerable local families in East Newport as part of its lifeline support services which are continuing during the coronavirus emergency.
The donations have been made by ASDA and TK Maxx.
Rachel Thomson, Pan Together’s Community Centre Manager, said:
“We are hugely grateful to the Newport branches of both ASDA and TK Maxx for their incredibly kind donations which will make a real difference to families who are finding life challenging in these tough times.
“Delivering carrier bags full not only of food essentials but also of treats to people’s doorsteps has been a real privilege – and these donations have brought smiles to many faces across Pan, Pan Meadows and Barton. We can’t thank the two stores enough for their on-going support of our vital work”.
Clare Jones, the Community Champion at ASDA’s Newport store, said:
“I am really happy to be have been able to donate 14 family food bags to Pan Together to support our local community and struggling families”.
Is this going to be the norm now taking food to the so called vulnerable. You’ll only make it worse as it leaves them more money for booze, drugs and fags.
You wait and see what happens when they stop all this support for the lazy s p o n g e r s.
ok happy for the poor and desperate to what just starve to death ,just sit at home behind you’re keyboard and hate the world you sad sad sad what ever you are its not human ,you and you’re sort are a disgrace ,well done to two big companies with a heart
Bless you, they’ve got you hooked and blinkered too.
I have every right to an opinion as has everyone else and I wouldn’t comment on anything unless I’ve seen it first hand.
90% of these freeloaders have more in their homes than you probably have and as a tax payer I’m contributing towards it.
So your damn right I’ll have my say.
Yeah right you’ve seen it first hand, have you ever volunteered at a food bank, or worked with lower income people? probably not, your ‘first hand’ experience is watching benefits Britain and reading the Daily Mail
they are not desperate – they have council paid accomodation, universal credit and child benefit.
desperate is being homeless and not eaten a single thing for days.
Yes punish the children because the parents actions leave them without food and clothing, you assume that all people on universal credit are drug addicts and scroungers whereas in reality they are the vast minority, maybe benefits Britain shouldn’t be taken as fact. Many people have fallen on hard times due to the pandemic, how about you stop attacking vulnerable people in or society
joe – the parents are responsible for the children – not us – we did not bring them into this world. If the parents don’t do the job properly, then they should be taken into care and the parents charged with child neglect, named and shamed publicly and jailed.
I did not wish to rdignify this comment with a response…. but changed my mind! These are horrible and bitter comments from a person who will not even put his or her name to them. Having spent 354 days delivering food, hot meals and much more besides to people’s doorsreps as a charity worker, you, ‘Gullible Islander’, clearly have no idea about what the real world is like. I wish you well.
the real world for us, is getting up everyday, working long hours only to see more and more of our money taken in taxation, which lowers our standard of life. This insult is then compounded by seeing a bunch of freeloading parasites, living it up on the money we have had taken from us in the form of taxes.
We work to provide ourselves a better life – not to subsidise spongers and you are just perpetuating their laziness, by giving them free food, instead of them going out to work, earning the money, buying the food and cooking it themselves, just like we have to.
I live in the real world every day.
I don’t read papers and I hardly watch tv as I have a life.
My comments are from personal experiences working with and around these people. Not just dropping food at a doorstep.
When you’ve been inside the homes of most of these parasites and see the size of them and look at what they’ve got then you’ll soon realise they’re not starving or vulnerable.
In fact they laugh and speak down to the workforce as if they’re paying the bills.
You’re obviously a nice person for offering to help and as for my username it’s purely what I think of most the islanders GULLIBLE.
well said gullible islander – all these so called vulnerable are having their rent paid, council tax paid, bills covered with universal credit, food bought with taxpayers money and then they still expect more. They get child benefit, which is supposed to be spent on food for the kids,not on booze, baccy, mobile phone top ups and weed.
and now, a load of free food is being given, so that they can divert their food money into more sky channels.
leeches all of them, take, take, take and give absolutely nothing in return, except being a burden on the hard working taxpayers.
if there were less of them, we would have less taxes to be rinsed for.
Bravo isle of wighter.
People do not have a clue what it’s like too starve. Being hungry as they haven’t eaten for 3 hours is not classed as starving.
All these parasites should spend 6 months in Africa then they’ll realise what starving is.
It makes me cross to hear these 16 stone single mums plead poverty and say they’re starving. STARVING!!!! look at the size of you and your kids, how can that be starving. Then see them on their mobile and playing on their game consoles, watching sky, smoking and drinking, followed by a trip to KFC or McDonalds.
All supplied by the hard working british tax payer.
yes…4000 children a day die of starvation in Africa.. these precious little state burdens in this country have it so good but are too daft to notice it and the hand wringing do gooders keep the sponging going because of their ignorance.