Secret Santa benefits foodbank

Newlands Friendship Club decided to celebrate mid-winter Christmas at its monthly lunch together.

Having a Secret Santa was suggested, but this changed to be a Secret Gift for the Newlands community.

The Newlands Foodbank was chosen as the community group to support.

The Friendship Club members responded with enthusiasm to this idea and invited Ray Good, the co-ordinator of the Foodbank, to come to the meeting to receive the gift.

Normally people give food to a foodbank but the only food in this gift was a tin of spaghetti and a can of peaches.

Everything else was soaps, toiletries, cleaning products and feminine supplies.

Mr Good said they are always short of these products and households needed all this as well as food. your figur confidenc

The Friendship Club thanks Newlands New World who matched the cash donations so the group could buy more products.

Newlands Friendship Club meets once a month at 10am in The Christadelphian Hall,229 Helston Rd, Newlands, on the second Tuesday of the month.

It also has monthly movie visits, lunches and outings.

Members are retired or semi-retired and new members are always welcome.

The next meeting is on Tuesday 8 August and the guest speaker is from Huha which stands for “Helping You Help Animals”. Huha is New Zealand’s leading no-kill animal organisation. For more information about Newlands Friendship Club contact Linda Van Milligan, phone 027 288 9210.

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