Local business, Radstock Carpet & Bed Centre have generously donated to the Community Food Network (CFN).

For the last four weeks, CFN have been donating Care Bags to local people who are struggling to feed themselves. The Care Bags are designed to contain enough food for three days’ worth of breakfasts, lunches and main meals for a household.

Care Bag availability is posted on the CFN’s Facebook page on a Friday. The post is shared widely around local community Facebook groups. People who are in need are then invited to message the page to request a Care Bag. Care Bags are donated on a ‘No Questions Asked’ policy. Guests (the name given to the people being donated to) are then given a location and time to collect the Care Bags. This has been on a Monday night at around 7 pm.

After Radstock Carpet & Bed Centre saw CFN’s initial post about Care Bags, they immediately contacted CFN and offered their support. Working with CFN, Pippa Wilcox, a Carpet Fitter for Radstock Carpet & Bed Centre, designed the three day Care Bag.

Pippa said: “We had such joy working with CFN planning the Care Bags. I’m so happy that Radstock Carpet & Bed Centre were able to help. This is definitely something that we would like to continue to do in the future. Hopefully CFN’s Guests will benefit hugely from the project.”

CFN said: “We are so grateful for the kindness of Radstock Carpet & Bed Centre. Their generosity has meant that CFN have been able to donate Care Bags to our Guests for the last two weeks. This has been a huge boost the the CFN project and has allowed us time to get established. CFN would like to say a massive thank you to Pippa and the Radstock Carpet & Bed Centre for their kindness, help, enthusiasm and for their offer of support in the future.”

If other businesses or organisations would like to

support CFN they are asked to contact them at: https://www.facebook.com/CommunityFoodNetwork.

If you would like to donate to the project, CFN have a crowdfunding page at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/communityfoodnetwork