A teaching assistant from a Clifton school has single handedly set up a food bank, to help out the community. 27-year-old Shannon Atkinson, who works as a high level teaching assistant at Derwent Vale School, wanted to set up the food bank to help out any struggling families and elderly residents in the Clifton area. The Clifton Food Pantry opens this week and will be held at the Methodist Church, in Clifton. Shannon said: The aim is, while we are still in lockdown, to help families and the elderly who are struggling financially in Clifton. At the school I m the mental health designated lead and I thought what can I do to help children and families and anyone struggling financially in Clifton?
The culmination of weeks of hard work will come together in Seaton today, when hundreds of tea boxes and goody bags will surprise residents old and young. From 12pm today (December 19) volunteers will begin to deliver 515 tea boxes to older residents in Seaton, Camerton and Barepot. From 1pm to 4pm hampers will be delivered to families who need a little bit of help at Christmas around the villages and with those hampers Workington Town Rugby League Football Club has donated toys for children under 16. The volunteers - known as Team Seaton have also distributed nearly 750 goodie bags to children in Seaton, Barepot and Camerton, with the last of those going out from the base at Methodist Chapel right now until noon.