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Park Fisheries Covid Delivery for HT!

Simon and Gail have owned Park Fisheries on Beeston Road Leeds for 19 years. Pre-Covid, members of their older community would meet every Friday at St Matthew’s to have a sit-down fish and chip lunch, rustled up by Simon and Gail and hosted by Holbeck Together(HT).

When Covid hit, Simon got in touch to let them know they would continue to support our weekly activity in any way they could. Although we couldn’t continue our lunch and afternoon activities at St Matthew’s, we wanted to keep things as close to ‘normal’ as possible, with their favourite fish and chips delivered to their doors.

That first week, Park Fisheries donated the fish and chips order for over 40 older members of the community free of charge. It was early on in the crisis and so much was still unknown, but they said they wanted to do what they could for those who couldn’t get out.

Instead of one driver who would rush the lunches back to St Matthew’s, we now needed a team of four to deliver the meals to individual houses. Wanting to ensure that each client received a piping hot meal even at home, Park Fisheries bought four thermos bags especially for us.

Despite working with a reduced team, Simon and Gail went the extra mile, adapting the system to enable our fantastic volunteer to sort the orders into delivery lists and get the meals out in record times. Despite the Friday lunch queues they never fail to have our order perfectly right and ready to go, and always with a cheerful smile.

Thank you to the whole team at Park Fisheries!

Simon said:“It’s been very busy since last March. Everyone is finding it difficult, all small businesses, but we’re finding a new normal. We’ve reduced our hours a bit but our priority is to continue doing what we’re doing. It’s been our most stressful year, but you keep going, we’ll find our way through it, we always do. I couldn’t do it without Gail. She’s the backbone. A lot of people tell us we’re a well-oiled machine! We work well together, it just flows. There’s time you’re running round like silly idiots but it just works, I don’t know how!”

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