Inverness meals group gears up to help again during coronavirus pandemic
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Food For Families, the Inverness-based good cause which distributes meals to needy homes in winter, has come out of cold storage to help during the coronavirus pandemic.
It will be distributing food parcels – including milk, bread and vegetables as well as locally-cooked meals.
Food For Families distributed 2797 meals last winter to take their tally to 23,691 meals in the past nine years.
Project manager Alex Gilchrist said: “We have a small army of volunteer cooks who are contributing, with local businessman David Sutherland and his wife Anne donating mince as usual while Catriona Cameron of The Kitchen and Mustard Seed restaurants is again supplying potatoes and veg.
“Inverness Prison, who help us every winter, indicated they were ready to help and are supplying us with at least 80 meals a week, prepared by prisoners who are keen to make a contribution.
“Our freezers keep the meals centrally and we’re delivering the food parcels to people identified by social workers. We welcome any donations as we’re supplying between 150 and 200 meals per week, mainly to Inverness but also to Easter Ross, Glen Urquhart, Beauly and Kiltarlity.”
David Sutherland, founder and chairman of Food For Families, said: “It’s a great pity that there is such genuine hardship in the area, which is so often overlooked.
“This virus keeps people at home and often with a limited food supply.
“A hot meal can lift spirits in a household.
“It makes sense for our group to get cracking again and help where we can.”
