{"id":580,"date":"2015-05-04T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/skipton\/?p=580"},"modified":"2015-05-12T14:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:56:27","slug":"skipton-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/skipton\/2015\/05\/04\/skipton-food-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Skipton Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/skipton\/files\/2015\/05\/Skipton-Food-Bank-211.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-588\" src=\"\/skipton\/files\/2015\/05\/Skipton-Food-Bank-211-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Skipton Food Bank 211\" width=\"173\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/skipton\/files\/2015\/05\/Skipton-Food-Bank-211-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/skipton\/files\/2015\/05\/Skipton-Food-Bank-211.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members of Soroptimist International of Skipton-in-Craven had their awareness raised about the good work by Volunteers at Skipton\u2019s Food Bank at their meeting on 27<sup>th<\/sup> April.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Irvine explained that the Skipton Food Bank was started initially by a Prayer Group at Skipton Baptist Church in December 2010, when it was felt there was a need for a Christmas Hampers to be distributed to vulnerable people in and around the town.\u00a0 The Baptist Church also felt there was a need to repeat this at Easter 2011.\u00a0 By 2012 over 100 Hampers has been supplied, and by 2013 this had grown to 300, all done by Church volunteers alone.<\/p>\n<p>The Food Bank was formalised in 2014, and spread over Craven with the support of Craven District Council providing a Grant to finance a part-time Manager.\u00a0 The Food Bank has had a lot of support by local schools, especially at Harvest time, and they were able to supply 100 Christmas Hampers.<\/p>\n<p>All food is donated locally and is distributed through liaision with local relevant agencies such as CDC Housing; Yorkshire Housing; Citizen\u2019s Advice Bureau; Childrens\u2019 Centre at Skipton and Settle; Homestart; the Probation Service; Christians Against Poverty (which helps people out of debt) Domestic Abuse, and the Youth Service in addition to Drop-in\/Homeless at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Food is sorted by volunteers into types, and by use-by date, and then collated into a range of products for each bag which would contain food to the value of about \u00a325 for a single bag, or \u00a340 for a family bag. The bags are supplied by Morrison\u2019s, and staff from Skipton Building Society volunteer once a fortnight to collect items from Morrison\u2019s store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; Members of Soroptimist International of Skipton-in-Craven had their awareness raised about the good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Skipton Food Bank | News | Blog | Events | SI Skipton-in-Craven<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Skipton-in-Craven : Blog &amp; News : Skipton Food Bank : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Skipton-in-Craven . 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