FareShare Aboyne

At Aboyne Fareshare, we gather in donations of food and money generously donated by the public, local businesses, Cfine, Aboyne Co-op, and Morrisons and distribute food and household goods to groups of individuals and to the Local Larders in Aboyne, Torphins, Lumphanan and Kincardine O’ Neil.

Aboyne-Dinnet Parish Church in Aboyne and Mid-Deeside Church at Torphins, Kincardine O’Neil and Lumphanan have set up Larders where you can donate to or access a food bank. There is no referral system and both giving and receiving is anonymous.

In Tarland please contact cromarfood@ gmail.com for assistance.

We are always looking for donations of dried, tinned, packet foods, toiletries and cleaning products. We have donation bins at Aboyne Co-op and Morrisons at Banchory. Financial donations can be made by contacting MDCT on 013398 85222.

We would like to say a very big thank you to everyone who has so generously donated in the past. Without your kindness we would be unable to help.

A person who wishes to remain anonymous kindly donated a Fortnum and Mason Hamper to us which we raffled off in early March by selling tickets in the village (thanks to Corner House who had a book of tickets, and the Coop who allowed us to sell raffle tickets in store) raising the grand sum of £341.88, with the winning ticket belonging to Hilary Ford.

Aboyne and Upper Deeside Rotary Club also recently gave us a generous donation, and the Scout Group passed on some of a payment they received from SSEN after the storms as the Resilience Group used some of our foodstuffs to cook up hot meals at the Scout Hut which were collected and distributed around Aboyne.

Did you know that you can help us just by doing your shopping? The Coop has Aboyne Fareshare (Mid Deeside

Volunteer Carol Vermeulen provides an update

Community Trust – Aboyne Food Bank) as one of their community causes, and you can choose us as the cause which you support in your Co-op App or on your Coop Membership page online. The more people who choose us as their cause, the more money we will receive. We have just received the first payment from them, and we are still listed as one of their community causes for another six months.

Cash donations we receive we use to top up the village larders with items which are short on supply or which we do not receive through goods donations. Each shop that we do costs in excess of £200 (and certainly won’t be getting any cheaper!) and lasts just over a month, so you can see how vital our fundraising and cash donations are.

For more information, please email us at Aboyne Fareshare on aboynefareshare@ mid-deeside.org.uk or look us up on the MDCT website, and we have our own Facebook page now also on https://www. facebook.com/AboyneFareshare

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