FareShare help for Simon Community

Ballymena Simon Community team leader Kerry McWilliams has cooked up a great way to ensure residents get a proper start to the day.

By The Newsroom

Published 13th Aug 2013, 10:38 BST

Simon Community Ballymena Team Leader Kerry McWilliams pictured with PSNI's Detective Sergeant Paul Merce

Kerry matched food sourced by the charity FareShare with £400 of funding from Ballymena PSNI’s local initiative budget.

In August 2013, the Simon Community requested food from FareShare’s Belfast Depot which is operated by the Council for the Homeless NI (CHNI).

By working with over 40 local food suppliers and producers, CHNI FareShare rescues surplus food from landfill and redistributes it organisations which work with needy and vulnerable people throughout Northern Ireland.

The PSNI then supplemented FareShare’s donation of surplus food with £400.