More than 100 Christmas hampers have been created by the Better Together team, which are going out to people across Great Yarmouth who were identified as being in need of a festive cheer at this time of year
The initiative builds on the success of last year’s Great Yarmouth Open Christmas which saw the sit down dinner cancelled because of fear about the omicron variant at the end of the Covid pandemic.
The new plan was to instead create hampers or “goodie bags” which would be delivered before Christmas. We made sure to tailor the bags or hampers for different ages and different needs.
We hope that the Christmas hampers that we have created will add a considerable festive joy to everyone who receives them. As ever, we are humbled and indebted to all those who volunteered their time to make this happen.
Laura Bloomfield, from Voluntary Norfolk, who helped organise the initiative said:
“Massive thanks to the whole Better Together Team for their hard work in organising and pulling together. I was lucky enough to be part of it and the team were incredible with everyone pulling together to ensure the job was done”
We hope that the items helped people not just on Christmas Day, but over the winter months when it is expected that the cost of living crisis will hit households the most.
Items included in the Christmas hampers:
- A range of food including cereal, pasta, tins, rice, sauce mixes
- Box/tin of chocolates
- Toilet roll
- Sanitary products for women
- Tea, coffee, sugar
- Deodorant, soap
- Thermal hat, scarf and gloves
- Every box had a hand made gift from Norfolk Knitters
- A handmade card made by our groups and volunteers