Looking Back

Knowsley Chamber

At the beginning of April, The Big Help Project approached us, the Knowsley Chamber, for help as their food stocks dropped to critically low levels, both as a consequence of a drop off in donations as people isolated in their homes, and also a huge increase in the number of people approaching The Big Help Project to be fed.

In response, we teamed up with The Big Help Project and Knowsley Council to coordinate a call to local businesses for help, particularly for the most urgent items. Over a period of just 10 days, 60 Knowsley-based businesses answered the call and came forward with generous donations of food items, daily essentials and cash donations.

Knowsley businesses helped to improve stocks of vital items such as; tinned meat; UHT milk; squash/juice; dried pasta; tinned potatoes; tinned fruit and other essentials such as toilet rolls. This support helped The Big Help Project to continue delivering food parcels to hundreds of local families suffering hardship as a result of the Coronavirus epidemic. The team at Knowsley Chamber has also backed the campaign with personal donations by the team which has been matched by Knowsley Chamber.

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