Food Bank & Tools For Self Reliance
Food Bank
Working closely with church communities, businesses and local supermarkets Leyland Foodbank provides temporary relief for the hungry in Leyland. It is open Monday to Thursday 10am –12noon, operating on a referral basis from St Mary’s Community Centre, Broadfield Drive, Leyland PR25 1PD
For those in urgent need of food one off parcels are available. If you are in need of food, please come along and our volunteers will help you.
They will give you food and discuss getting a referral if you are going to need further support.
We would like to thank all the generous people, organisations and businesses that regularly support the Food Bank with their donations.
The Food Bank Team
New Tesco Collections Trolley
If you donate at Tesco, then please put your food donations for our foodbank in this trolley. (No Leyland foodbanks current purchase food from FareShare and so no food placed in the adjacent FareShare trolley benefits anyone locally.)
Tools For Self Reliance
Tools for Self Reliance is a UK registered charity with the mandate of working with local organisations in developing countries to relieve poverty amongst the local population. It is a practical way to support local craftsmen in some of the poorest parts of the world.
Tool collection and refurbishment provides people in the UK with the opportunity to work together for the greater good. Today, there are hundreds of volunteers in Tools for Self Reliance groups all over the country refurbishing tools and sewing machines, and there are scores of others collecting them, raising money and publicising our work.
The local Tools for Self Reliance Group meets at the United Reformed Church on Thursday evenings from 7 until 9pm.
Anyone with tools or sewing machines to donate can bring them most Thursday evenings to the Quin Street entrance. Almost all tools and sewing machines are accepted, but please note that only those suitable to support current or future TfSR projects will go to Africa. Everything will be used one way or another.
We raise money by selling items not suitable for Africa, either locally, via TfSR headquarters or through specialist dealers. Items not fit for use will be stripped for spares or to be sold as scrap. Scrap metal sales provide income to pay for the transport of the several pallet loads per year that the Leyland group send to TfSR headquarters.
For more information about the local group or if you are interested in helping or need tools collecting, then please contact any of:
Eccleston area – Dennis O’Connell 01257 451270
Leyland Area – John Mercer 01772 315755
Leyland area – Martin Smith 01772 452745
You can find more information about TfSR on their website.