Muhammad Talha
The Barking & Dagenham Volunteering Bureau (BDVB) is delighted to announce a working partnership which sees supermarket chain LIDL joining John Samuel Estates and Avril’s Platters to support four local homeless hostels. The local partnership will officially be launched on 1st May 2018.
BDVB volunteers will be working with LIDL Chadwell Heath and the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to collect surplus food for the local homeless hostels, Barking & Dagenham Centre Get Together groups as well as lonely, isolated and very low income families living in the Borough.
BDVB Homeless soup kitchen co-ordinator and hostels liaison Emdad Rahman commented, “This is great news and we are delighted to welcome our local LIDL store as partners in our collective efforts to help ease homelessness and poverty. Thank you to Jon Gildersleeve and the team at BDVB for the hard work put in to make this happen.”
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