{"id":1411,"date":"2019-01-15T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2019-01-15T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:55:20","slug":"food-bank-thanks-pupils-parents-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/food-bank-thanks-pupils-parents-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Bank Thanks Pupils, Parents and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BFB-letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BFB-letter.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BFB-letter-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bridgnorth Food Bank has sent a letter of thanks to Bridgnorth Endowed School pupils, parents and staff for the generous contributions that were collected at a school event held in December. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Advent Campaign was a great success and enabled the local charity to give people some extra Christmas goodies as well as their normal food parcels.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bridgnorth Food Bank launched its emergency food service from a distribution centre on West Castle Street in February 2013 and has helped many people over the years.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the letter, Liz Bird, lead co-ordinator of Bridgnorth Food Bank said: \u201cWe are seeing a steady flow of people needing our services in this area, and are grateful for the donations of food and other items that come to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The food bank continues to help many struggling individuals in the town and surrounding area.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The centre is open every Monday morning from 10.30 to 12.30, and works on a referral system, where agencies, such as the Job Centre or Citizens Advice, direct people to the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the charity can be found on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bridgnorth Food Bank website  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthfoodbank.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bridgnorth Food Bank website <\/a>\u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgnorth Food Bank has sent a letter of thanks to Bridgnorth Endowed School pupils, parents and staff for the generous contributions that were collected at a school event held in December. The Advent Campaign was a great success and enabled the local charity to give people some extra Christmas goodies as well as their normal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/food-bank-thanks-pupils-parents-and-staff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food Bank Thanks Pupils, Parents and Staff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}