Durham Council Council's food bank appeal provides hundreds of meals

18/12/2019

COUNCIL staff and members have donated thousands of festive treats to foodbanks across County Durham to help people in need this Christmas.

For the third year running, employees and councillors from Durham County Council donated throughout November to the appeal which asks them to buy an extra item with their regular grocery shop.

Donations were then dropped into all the council’s main buildings and used by the foodbanks to create special Christmas hampers for local people in crisis.

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