At the Old Spotted Dog Ground on Saturday, we’ll be hosting the London homelessness charity New Horizon Youth Centre, who will be collecting for their food bank.
New Horizon works with young people – including many in Newham and across East London – who are experiencing homelessness. They deliver high quality services for 16-24 year olds in housing, health, safety and life skills.
Due to the increased cost of living there has been an unprecedented recent demand, and supplies are running very low. The young people they support are really struggling to buy food and are often reliant on NHYC’s support to help them keep nourished.
Therefore they will be holding a food bank collection at Saturday’s Men’s First Team game against Heybridge Swifts.
You know the type of cupboard staple food they need:
Tinned food, instant noodles, pasta, rice, tea, coffee, long-life milk (oat and dairy), cereal boxes, sugar, salt, oils etc.
If you’d prefer, they will have a card reader so you can donate for them to directly purchase from a wholesaler to help stock the food bank.
A reminder…
- We hold a hygiene bank collection for Magpie Project at every home game
- We also have a boot collection for Dost in the Clubhouse