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BRIDGE COMMUNITY FARMS LAUNCHES DEDICATED
SERVICE TO HELP PEOPLE DURING CORONAVIRUS
The charity Bridge Community Farm in Ellesmere Port is
working flat out to meet the demands of people affected by
the Coronavirus pandemic.
They have launched a dedicated service to ensure that vulnerable
and elderly people continue to receive vital provisions during
the Covid-19 crisis.
The charity urgently requires more volunteer drivers and an
additional van to help with the distribution of their popular
weekly fresh vegetable boxes.
Clair Johnson, General Manager of Bridge Community Farm,
said: “We are being inundated with enquiries from older people
who are confined to home and worried about getting fresh
food. We have increased our capacity to get more supplies out.
unemployed growing fresh vegetables, salads, herbs and fruit in
their fields and poly tunnels.
The Farm is currently closed to the public.
For more information or if you can volunteer as a driver on
Tuesday mornings between 8.30am-12pm (own car needed
and a smartphone are the only pre-requisites) please visit
https://bwgardens.co.uk/ or call 07446 699995.
HOW TO SIGN UP TO THE VEG BOX SCHEME
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Go to www.bwgardens.co.uk
Follow the link for veg box scheme.
Click the ‘sign up now’ link, this takes you on to our order
page.
Choose the box that you would like and add any extra
items that you would like.
The system will ask you if you are a new customer and to
add your email address.
Then add your preferred delivery area, what date and the
frequency of order eg weekly, fortnightly etc.
You will then be asked your name and telephone number
and asked to complete your order.
“The situation has become even more urgent since the
Government advised everybody other than key workers to stay
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“Our wonderful staff are continuing to maintain our growing
spaces and tend our plants and crops to meet the demand of
our vegetable boxes. We are, as always, enforcing strict hygiene
measures.” •
Bridge Community Farm is based in Ellesmere Port and
supports those coping with mental health and learning
difficulties in the therapeutic environment of their 10-acre
farm in Ellesmere Port. They also create jobs for the long term N.B if you require more than one box you have to make a
second order. You will receive a welcome email. Please read it
carefully, all payment information is within.
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