Items needed for One Can Trust

Following on from our previous news story regarding our support for the One Can Trust foodbank, the charity has released their latest list of items needed.

Our Sixth Form students have been encouraging the school community to make donations to the One Can Trust, with two donation points on the school site.

The number of people the Pipers community are helping to support are as follows:

• In the week to 19/3/21, One Can Trust supported 647 people, 301 of which were children (47%). Last week we supported 696 people.
• In the week to 19/3/21, parcels were delivered to 279 homes.
• In March 2020, the average number of people we were supporting was 225 per week.
• We are currently supporting 188% more people compared with pre-COVID times. In other words, we're supporting 2.88 times as many people as we were.

Items currently needed:

•  eggs
• fresh fruit and veg
• cooking sauces
• tinned ham and meat
• tinned meat meals and hotdogs
• tinned mixed veg
• pasta 
• biscuits
• toothbrushes

Items not needed:

• soup
• fish
• peas and sweetcorn
• crisps and confectionary
• tea 
• homemade food
• toothpaste
• nappies
• sanitary towels
• alcohol 

Thank you for your support!