Mull serves up help to ease Covid impact

From making sets of scrubs to stitching facemasks, volunteers on Mull have also been cooking and delivering hot meals to those in need.

Mull and Iona Community Trust (MICT) has also been helping support people impacted by the pandemic. Fundraising and volunteers during Covid have helped pump £100,000 back into the Mull community.

Moray Finch, MICT general manager, said: ‘Mull residents have really come together and embraced the initiatives that have been put in place over the last year.

‘The assistance and fundraising over the last year has put £100,000 back into the community. MICT has been supporting in the background but

the community “has done some amazing things. They have really pulled the stops out.’

Even though the island’s Revolve certifi ed second-hand store MESS Island Castaways is shut during the pandemic, its parent organisation MICT has kept up amazing work.

Revolve is the re-use quality standard for shops which sell second-hand goods in Scotland and is awarded by Zero Waste Scotland.

Last summer, MICT co-ordinated a group of volunteers who wanted to do more to support local health services and sourced a pattern to make scrubs, initially using whatever spare fabric they had available, then fundraising to buy material. Together the volunteers made nearly 100 sets of scrubs in various sizes which were gifted to healthcare workers on the island.

The group is now making face masks, sourcing HEPA material to make fi lters so the

The community on Mull has embraced initiatives to support fellow islanders during Covid masks can be used in any situation. More than 4,000 face coverings were made by volunteers, with many distributed to those in need Mull residents with others available for sale have really come to raise money for the Covid together and Winter Hardship Fund. embraced the MICT is also backing a dedinitiatives that icated group of locals who have been put in have been taking it in turns to place over the deliver food parcels and pick last year. up prescriptions and groceries for Mull residents who are isolated or shielding. Some islanders have been cooking and delivering hot meals to those who needed it, preparing 30 meals a day and delivering them in the MICT electric van.