Banbridge ACT thanks sponsors for Covid response support

Volunteers from Banbridge ACT mobilised to help provide meals to the vulnerable and elderly in Banbridge and rural environs and also PPE to local care homes during lockdown.
Left to Right - Alderman Glenn Barr, Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Kyle Savage, members of Banbridge ACT.Left to Right - Alderman Glenn Barr, Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Kyle Savage, members of Banbridge ACT.
Left to Right - Alderman Glenn Barr, Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Kyle Savage, members of Banbridge ACT.

Volunteers from Banbridge ACT mobilised to help provide meals to the vulnerable and elderly in Banbridge and rural environs and also PPE to local care homes during lockdown.

The group raised funds from within as well as from businesses, bands and sports clubs and has thanked all its sponsors and its team of volunteers.

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A spokesperson for the group said: “Without this much needed funding, we as a local community group (Banbridge ACT) would not of been able to provide meal packs to our local community and PPE to care homes. We thank them all.

We would also like to thank our team of volunteers who helped put the packs together and help deliver them over Covid 19 lockdown.

“We, as a community group, are poised, should Northern Ireland or, indeed, if it goes into localised lockdown to provide support for our local community.”

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Kyle Savage said: “I wish to put on record my sincere thanks to Banbridge ACT and all the local community groups throughout the borough who helped in these strange and dangerous times we face ourselves. They really have stepped up to the mark.”

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