Residents at Sidcup care home support local community with food bank donation

Dozens of food items have been donated to a nearby food bank by a group of residents at a local care home. 

Residents at Care UK’s Smyth Lodge, on Frognal Avenue, were discussing how they could help their local community this festive season and decided to pool together food items and donate to two charitable causes. 

 

The foodstuff was split between St Edward’s Church, in Mottingham, and the Bromley branch of national foodbank, The Trussell Trust. Items included custard, rice pudding and tinned soups as well as cereals and mince pies. 

Resident, 78-year-old Gillian said: “It’s important to help the local community out all year round, but even more at Christmas. We’ve loved collecting all the items and visiting the two organisations to deliver the donations.”

Tracey Cheeseman, Home Manager at Smyth Lodge, said: “We think it’s wonderful that residents wanted to work together to support two fantastic organisations. They have been spending weeks compiling the items and were delighted at the amount of support they received from fellow residents.

“Right now there are so many families and individuals that depend on local food banks, it is incredibly important that we support these charities to carry on with the amazing work that they do. We hope that our donations will be enjoyed this festive season.” 

Smyth Lodge has been designed to deliver the very best standards of care and to enable residents to live active and fulfilled lives. The state-of-the-art care home, which opened in 2019, provides full-time residential, nursing and specialist dementia care, and features a cinema, hair salon and activities room.

For more information on Smyth Lodge, contact Customer Relations Manager, Rebecca Wheeler, on 0333 3053 474 or email rebecca.wheeler@careuk.com or visit careuk.com/smyth-lodge