Could you donate food items to help families in crisis? The Foodbank Project consists of a ‘holiday hunger’ service to provide parcels of lunch items during the long summer holiday for children who usually have free school meals. ESQUIRES Coffee, Yate is holding an inaugural Big Community Day this Saturday, 9 June at Yate Riverside Retail Park, to gather provisions for Yate and Chipping Sodbury Foodbank.

Items required include small jars of sandwich spreads, small bottles/cans of lower sugar drinks, cereal snack bars, small tins of ham, Spam, and corned beef, small tins of fruit (in juice if possible), low fat savoury snacks, tinned macaroni cheese, Pot Noodles or Super Noodles.