For this term, we've decided to help out a new initiative in the South Bucks area. The One Can Trust Food Bank has been set up by a church in High Wycombe to help some of the 12,000 children and their families in Buckinghamshire who live in poverty, by providing emergency food parcels.
12,000 children in Buckinghamshire alone... makes you think, doesn't it? This rather blows away the image of Buckinghamshire as a leafy and rich haven. As a group, we've recognised that we are really lucky, and we want to help some of the people round here who aren't so lucky. So we've decided to help One Can Trust.
Firstly we had an evening where we all brought donations ourselves and from our families, and then we decided that we could do more, and have challenged our whole district to donate cans during the weeks of October 6th - 20th! With all the units we have in our district, hopefully we'll get a fantastic amount of donations in. We've asked the girls themselves to donate, rather than asking their parents. Given that a chocolate bar nowadays costs about 50p, and a magazine at least £1, we're hoping that they'll be willing to give up a treat for a week, and use that money to buy something for the food bank.
If you're reading this, and would like to help change a life with a donation of food, contact One Can Trust, details are on their website: http://www.sac-hw.org.uk/one-can-trust-foodbank, or drop us an email at prrangerguides@gmail.com
