Donations wanted to help Hucknall Food Bank make Christmas hampers for struggling families

These hampers make an enormous difference to the festive season, helping alleviate the many financial pressures and allowing people to celebrate the season rather than exist through it.

Throughout the year hundreds of you have helped by donating items during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

And now Hucknall Fire Station have launched a new appeal to help people get through the second wave.

A post on Hucknall Fire Station’s Facebook page said: “We are now coming into our second wave and it falls right on our festive season.

"To help the Hucknall Food Bank build their hampers we have devised a 12 days of Christmas scheme.

"Don’t worry if you can’t get your hands on everything especially with Lockdown now in place. You can simply replace it with something else, anything is better than nothing.

“We aim to collect all of your parcels on Friday, December 4, from 9.30am onwards.

"We will maintain social distancing and all of our firefighters will have masks and gloves on.”

Items included in the 12 days of Christmas scheme are a tin of spam/corn beef or even a pie, Christmas cake, puddings, festive cakes, custard or brandy sauce, hot chocolate, chocolate coins, stuffing, gravy or bread sauce and a chocolate selection box.

For the full list visit www.facebook.com/HucknallFireStation.

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