Highland Food Bank appeal in bid to combat summer demand in Inverness

A FOOD bank in Inverness is appealing for donations while warning supplies have dwindled down to tins of baked beans and bags of dried pasta.

Volunteers are worried the shelves look bare in the run up to the school summer holidays, which is one of its busiest times of the year.

Highland Foodbank spokesman Danny Muschate said there was “a super abundance of tinned soup, baked beans and packets of pasta” but it was very low on tins of other things including potatoes, fruit, ham, corned beef, custard and rice pudding, plus bags of sugar.

“Gradually these items just began to run low,” he said. “The same thing happened this time last year and we suddenly, without warning, had a huge increase in demand when the schools broke up for the summer holidays because people’s children were obviously not getting their free school meals for six weeks and there was no extra money coming into the households.

“Last year was the first time such a spike in need was noticed over the school summer holiday period.

“We’re obviously trying to pre-empt this and we’d be so grateful to receive any of these items.”

Donations can be dropped off at the food bank’s Glebe Street warehouse or any Blythswood Care charity shop.

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