Looking ahead to a bank holiday weekend, or half term with an empty fridge or cupboard is a horrendous and daunting prospect, especially when you have multiple mouths to feed. However, one individual has ensured that multiple households will not face this problem, this May Bank Holiday, thanks to their donation to UKHarvest.

It is not very often that faith in humanity can be restored with one single act, however, local food waste charity, UKHarvest, experienced just that when they received an unexpected phone call.

The staff from Chichester Co-op, Lavant Road called UKHarvest to share that an anonymous shopper had spent £100 of their own money to buy the reduced to clear produce from the shop to donate to UKHarvest. £100 spent in the Co-op's reduced to clear section equated to £300 worth of food that quickly went out to UKHarvest's Community Food Hub taking place that afternoon at East Wittering United Reform Church, ensuring that multiple households benefitted from the generosity of one person.

Tobi Stathers, Head of Fundraising at UKHarvest collected the food and wanted to share the following message to the team at the Co-op and the generous donor: 'In times when many people struggle to feed their households and loved ones, whilst tonnes of food is being thrown away, this act of extreme kindness and generosity reassures us that there is so much good in the world, and that our community is supportive, strong and most of all caring. Thank you to the staff at the Co-op for ensuring we could collect the food quickly, and efficiently and get it to our community food hub users in time for the long weekend.

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Most of all, thank you to the generous individual for thinking of others in a time of austerity, and for choosing UKHarvest as their charity to support."

If you, or anyone you know would like to suport UKHarvest, please visit our website to find out how you can be involved https://www.ukharvest.org.uk/support-donate.