Dumfries Morrisons store dishing out pallets of supplies to supplies

Dumfries charities are to share in more pallets of food supplies and urgently needed goods donated by the town’s Morrisons supermarket.

Last year the store’s community champion, Myra Smith, led the charge to help restock some of the town’s foodbanks which found themselves struggling with unprecedented demand for their services.

The store was given a share of the UK-wide supermarket chain’s £10m food donation, Feeding the Nation, and now the company has come forward with another £5 million of supplies for the lockdown.

Myra said: “I am thrilled we are able to do this again because it went down so well last year with the foodbanks in the town.

“The pallets of food and other goods, like nappies, have come in and I’m working to get them out again to Dumfries’ River of Life Church, Kate’s Kitchen in Annan, DGMA, First Base Agency, Summerhill Community Centre, Bethany Trust and Aberlour Trust.”

In addition, the Dumfries store has a foodbank in its foyer which invites the public to make donations of tins and packets for the First Base Agency food parcels which go out across Dumfriesshire to those in need of extra help.

And there are also “pick up packs” of various prices in the store with food items inside which customers can buy and leave at a collection point.