The Council is helping a local social enterprise charity, Community Solutions, to support more local vulnerable people, by supplying a van to help with many of their services.
Community Solutions North West is a social enterprise working in the North West, supporting more than 1500 people every month. Their services include befriending, food bank, allotments, training, sporting projects, family solutions and community repaint projects.
Cllr Munsif Dad, Cabinet Member for Health and Communities said; “Community Solutions carry out excellent work, supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our community and so we are glad to be able to help with the van donation, to help them support more people in need. “
Cllr Dad added; “The van will help Community Solutions in lots of ways. It will enhance their food bank operation, as although food parcels are all home delivered by volunteers, the van will allow the charity to collect more food from the local individuals, companies and schools who regularly support them. They will now be able to take advantage of some of the offers of food donations from Hyndburn based manufacturers and be in a position to offer to deliver some of the surplus food to other local organisations who are tackling food poverty.”
Mark Hirst, accepting the van on behalf of Community Solutions said; “Having this vehicle will be a massive help to many of our services as we continue to develop ways to help local people. It will be a huge boost to many of our operations including the Food Bank and will also help with our Community RePaint initiative as we can now collect more of the paint that local suppliers wish to donate and of course distribute the paint into Hyndburn from our RePaint Shop in Burnley.”
Mark added; "The van will also really help us to distribute the food from our allotments. Our polytunnels are based in Hyndburn and having a van will help us move the equipment needed between our allotment sites and to distribute the produce we are growing. Making sure we can get even more fresh, local and healthy produce into our food parcels.”
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