A Liverpool cafe's appeal to help feed the homeless has attracted donations from hundreds of miles away.
Big Bite on Upper Parliament Street has been generating interest from as far away as Scotland with the "feed the homeless jar" they have set up.
The family-run cafe swapped their tip jar for the cup when the first lockdown struck in March last year.
Owner Adel Al-Jawany moved to Liverpool 23 years ago from Yemen, going on to open Big Bite in 2003.
The father of four and his family have made a habit of feeding the homeless whenever they have food left over.
He told the ECHO : "We do this because it's good to help people, it's not fair to leave people without food."
His 11-year-old son, Adhem, is passionate about helping feed the homeless.
The young boy often asks to take food out to feed people in need.
On holidays such as Christmas, when the business will be closed for a number of days, they take all left over food and give it to homeless shelters across the city.
When lockdown first started and business dropped, the cafe wasn't able to afford to give out free food as regularly as they had before.
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Adel told the ECHO: "One day a regular customer came in and asked if we could give a homeless man a sandwich and a drink every day and that he would come in and settle the bill."
Big Bite went forward with this arrangement until inspiration struck from posts they had seen online.
Adel said: "We saw pay it forward schemes in the likes of London, where people would buy a coffee for someone else who couldn't afford it and thought we should do it here.
"Instead of customers buying specific items, they can put change in the feed the homeless jar and that way those in need can order whatever they like - within moderation.
"Nobody has tried to take advantage (inappropriately) of our scheme, which is good, it's been going on for nearly a year."
The small business didn't expect for their fund to gather much attention.
Adel told the ECHO: "A customer posted online about our feed the homeless jar, and his post got over 550 shares on Facebook.
"Now we have people reaching out to us wanting to add to the homeless food fund, we've had anonymous donors from as far as Scotland."
