…luckily,
I do!
Chairman Francis Barnes- Challinor, who has pledged to continue the service, said the not-for-profit organisation is desperately applying for grants to pay off its debts, but believes the authorities which direct people to the foodbank should support it.
Why? Is it
their fault you’re an idiot, then? That you set up a non-for-profit and assumed that meant you wouldn’t have to pay any bills?
“The volunteers are very disappointed, of course. We have been here nearly a year.
“We didn’t think we would get into this financial state when we took the premises.
We thought people would help us to pay the rent.
“At the moment, we deliver a lot of parcels to certain points such as probation, the council, the churches, or a lot of them used to help us by coming here.
“But they don’t offer any financial help or any volunteers.”
Well, why should they? You’ve taken away a burden so they are happy to see you shoulder it. They bear no responsibility for your plight. That falls to
you.
The organisation is also hoping to offer courses, including cookery and management skills, in a bid to generate funds for any future rent.
Hmmm, I wonder if that will include financial management..?
2 comments:
I cannot get my head around the food bank projects, whether they are for people or animals.
It seems to be very much for the benefit of the supermarkets who will shift product at full price. Those items are then treated as gift-ware, meaning that much of it is inappropriate, unwanted or wasted.
Would it not be better for people to form their own buying clubs so that they get what they actually want at wholesale prices?
My suggestion is that food-bank operators demand distribution space from the supermarkets since it is the retailers, not the recipients, who derive the main benefit.
"It seems to be very much for the benefit of the supermarkets who will shift product at full price. Those items are then treated as gift-ware, meaning that much of it is inappropriate, unwanted or wasted. "
I regularly pass the 'foodbank donation trolley' on my way out of Tesco, and wonder why they don't cut out the middleman and just donate the stuff themselves.
"...demand distribution space from the supermarkets..."
Intriguing...
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