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Goldsborough Do you want to make a difference Making a deposit at the
to people's lives?
HOME CARE Food Bank pays dividends
Do you have an NVQ Level 2
Providing a complete range in Care? A charity set up to give food to households in crisis has helped 1,500
of homecare services Do you have your own motor people since its launch last December.
transport?
Short or long term, from a For a variety of rea-
We are looking for very special people
1 5 minute call to 24 hour care sons, people can find
to join our team of
Personal care Support for BANK STAFF themselves in a situa-
Rise/retirement daily living to undertake care work in the tion where it is diffi-
Dressing Bed making community especially evenings, cult to put food on the
Meal preparation laundry/ironing table. Redundancy,
and weekends
/assistance Light household sickness and family
Swindon 1 Wood Street
Washing/bathing cleaning break down are com-
Carers
Convalescent care Shopping Centre Swindon mon causes of cash
?4Pn..L.ES..,.
flow problems.
for
For details, call 01793 616066 Telephone 01793 542285 "We feed as many
www.goldsborough-homecare.co.uk for an application pack people in Abbey
Meads and Priory Vale
Collecting at Asda Walmart last Decenhrr i he former
as we do in I'inehurst
Mayor and Mayoress Ray and Christine Fisher, zoith
and Penhill," said
AMETHYST HAIR & BEAUTY project manager Rich- Richard Belsham and helpers
ard Belsham. "Forty per cent are amazed by how much we collect."
Wish all our customers kids; a lot of 17 and 18 year olds Although stocks are now good,
a Merry Christmas and who've left home end up in half thanks to harvest festival collec-
way accommodation and need tions, some items are always
a Happy New Year! help." needed. The wish list includes:
He explained that benefits can tinned meat, rice pudding, UHT
HAIR EXTENSIONS take weeks to come through and milk, UHT juice, pasta sauce and
NOW AVAILABLE Food Bank bridges the gap. The 500g bags of sugar. Items can be
CALL GEMMA charity collects food at local dropped off at the Rainbow Chris-
churches and supermarkets. Shop- tian Bookshop in the town centre.
ON602446 pers are asked if they could buy a Contributions towards running
few extra items to donate and the costs are always welcome and a
73 Basepoint, Rivermead Drive, results are staggering. direct debit donation scheme has
In their first ten months, 19.8 been set up. For details call 0844
West Swindon
tonnes of food were donated. Ri- 566 7566.
chard added, "people in the town Foodbank will be at Asda
are so generous. Supermarketman- Walmart on 9 December, with
agers have said that they're the Salvation Army Band.
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minimal miles.
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Parton, Swindon ^QgCf^llZ eplien ea
^^ oo r^sE gour^ As demand for organic food outstrips UK supplies, planning to buy
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c.c a uxc*` ,,.,S locally should be on the Christmas list say food producers in the
Swindon area.
VEGETABLES • FRUIT • MEAT • EGGS
Local and organic is the ideal • ` -
Real food from a farm near you and luckily, if people eat seasonal
produce both are available.
Call for details about our We've all become used to let-
tuce all year round and strawber-
Organic Box Scheme ries in mid-winter. Perhaps it's .
time to tune into the seasons again
Deliveries & drop off points in Swindon, Cirencester.. and the traditional Christmas din-
Wootton Bassett, Broad Hinton. Marlborough, Wroughton nerisaperfectexampleofthekind `
www.purton-house.co.uk of homegrown foods available in
December. There should be no dif- ae:
ficulty in sourcing organic pota- Rou^ie Meers of Parton Howe
toes, sprouts, carrots, turkey or supermarketsjumpedontheband-
goose. wagon. Co-op member, Colin
Purton House farm sells a range Climpson, is sceptical about
$_ 1_ :4::.1\ \ L1'l 7_ of organic vegetables and its veg Tesco's plans to introduce a vegbox
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boxes can be collected from the scheme and their promise to source
farm or a number of drop-offpoints food as locally as possible. "I'm
including Lower Shaw Farm. Or- not convinced that they can do it.
I I L, 1 4? l:1"I,.1;LPL C'i;^^f^
ganic farmer, Helen Browning, is Local box schemes can't get enough
taking orders for her turkeys, local organic produce now; and
ducks and geese at Eastbrook what about all the extra packag-
Farm, Bishopstone. (Turkeys have ing?"
to be ordered by 7 December). As the debate goes on, buying
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` . i 3, jlY;w Swindon Pulse can provide the from local producers remains the
extras including vegetarian mince- simplest way to be sure that food
meat and Christmas puds. doesn't cost the earth:
• Pulse has been supplying www.purton-house.co.uk
healthy, ethically produced food www.swindon-pulse.co.uk
for thirty years, long before the big www.helenbrowningorganics,co.uk