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A community cafe is reopening its doors after a makeover and the success of a weekly food club initiative.
The Green Tree House Food Club & Tea Room, in Biddulph, was set up nearly five years ago by Amanda Beech, who now chairs the project.
Kildare group wants to tackle ‘hygiene poverty’
Appeal for charity partners
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A local group is looking for the general public to donate toiletries to those who need them.
Local co-ordinator of The Hygiene Bank, Trisha Shorten said she is seeking businesses to offer their premises as drop-off points for the donation of toiletries and for volunteers to pick them up to distribute them.
Trisha told the Leader: “The Hygiene Bank aims to tackle hygiene poverty by donating unopened/un-used toiletries and personal grooming products to those who need them.
“One in six people in Ireland live on an income below the poverty line and a fifth of children are at risk of poverty.
Plumbing problems remark slammed during debate on period poverty ‘scandal’
A comment about “calling out plumbers” during a council debate on period poverty has been slammed by a public representative who asked for free sanitary products to be made available in council facilities.
Monday, 15th March 2021, 5:16 pm
Ballymena Alliance Councillor Patricia O’Lynn angrily dismissed a remark at a special meeting of the council on Friday by Ulster Unionist Councillor Keith Turner who said that provision of sanitary products in council buildings was about “logistics”.
Cllr Turner was commenting on a motion proposed by Cllr O’Lynn for the local authority to provide free sanitary products in its sports grounds, public buildings and council facilities, starting with each of Mid and East Antrim’s town halls.