Home comes to aid of food bank

Glenholme Holdingham Grange recently held a collection among its team in aid of the New Life Community Larder, in Sleaford, a food bank serving the area.

During the Covid-19 crisis, the food bank has been coming to the aid of many vulnerable people through essential food deliveries, but also extended its service to include families with children who would have usually benefitted from the free school meal scheme.

The collection was organised by the care home’s clinical lead, Sarah Stock, who described it as a community gesture of goodwill to assist during the pandemic.

She said: “We never know when we might be in need of help and if communities can work together to benefit others, then that’s a good thing.”

The care home itself has been receiving support from the community during lockdown, including: letters to residents from Sleaford’s Church Lane Primary School; donations of knitted extenders for face masks and matching knitted hearts for residents to share with relatives; and deliveries of hand cream to ease dry skin brought about through extensive hand washing.

“It has been a time for people to pull together and to care about their communities, and we have been overwhelmed by gestures of kindness,” a spokesman for the care home said.