Morrisons is helping to restock Leighton Buzzard foodbank

Morrisons in Leighton Buzzard is going to help restock its local food banks during the coronavirus outbreak thanks to additional deliveries of extra food produced by Morrisons food making sites and distributing more food from its store.

Morrisons will be running its bakery, egg and fruit and veg packing site for an extra hour every day to make, prepare and pack food required to restock the food banks.

The supermarket will also be sending deliveries of ambient food - such as canned goods and pasta - to Morrisons Leighton Buzzard to also give to their local food bank.

The food donated to the store will be distributed to food banks by the Morrisons Leighton Buzzard community champion - Katharine Smith - who works with the local community.

Typical items being donated include bread, eggs, orange juice and bags of pasta.

Katharine Smith, Community Champion at Morrisons Leighton Buzzard, said: “As a food maker and shopkeeper we are uniquely placed to help.

"We know food banks are finding life extremely difficult and running our manufacturing sites for an extra hour each day to help restock them is the right decision at this time. #It’sMoreThanOurJob.”

In addition, to make it easier for customers to donate to food banks in stores, purchase limits on items will be raised to four items (from three) and some removed altogether.

Morrisons Leighton Buzzard will create ‘local’ drop off points for customers to donate products to those in need and a donation hub will collect these additional products for their local food banks.

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