Staff from Welwyn-based food and drink business do shifts at local food bank

The team at a Welwyn-based business have shown their dedication to supporting their local community by helping out at WD6 Food Support in Borehamwood.

The marketing department at Grace Foods UK, the number one supplier of Caribbean food and drink to the UK, recently spent a day at Parkside Community Primary School in Borehamwood helping to distribute food to people visiting the food bank.

The Grace Foods UK marketing team said: “As a team, we are really keen to do as much as we can to support our local community. We are aware how food banks such as WD6 Food Support are a key part of society these days and being a food and drink company, we want to be able to help as much as we can to ensure that every member of society has access to healthy, nutritious food.

“It was truly amazing to see the hours of preparation that go into each day to set up all the stock at WD6.

We assisted in transporting food around the site and helped to separate it into sections. We then all went to our stations and helped to give out the food to the patrons.

The organiser said they probably fed in the region of 350 people a day. We hope to be able to do more in the future with community projects.

Talking about the support from Grace Foods UK, WD6 co-founder Janice Levine said “Thank you all for helping serve the 76 people who visited us on the day that the Grace team visited, we probably fed somewhere in the region of 350 people.” www.gracefoods.co.uk

Grace Foods UK has had its head office in Welwyn for 16 years. Its parent company GraceKennedy celebrated its centenary last year. Grace Foods brands and products are national favourites and include: market-leading Nurishment (nutritionally enriched milk drinks); Encona (hot pepper sauces); Grace, Dunn’s River and Caribbean Choice (Caribbean beverages and general grocery ranges).

The WD6 Food Support group launched in late 2020 and has a permanent home at Parkside Community Primary School in Borehamwood when twice a week, a former classroom is opened to the public to fill bags with a range of goods, just like a food bank.