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    Hub’s volunteers pull out the stops for Christmas

    Friday, January 3rd, 2025 - Written by GRAHAM FORD
    Burnfoot Community Hub volunteers, back row from left, Micah Hall, Ellen Halliday and Zoe Hall. Front, Anne Raeburn, Lesley Redshaw, Joyce Short and Susan Brown. Missing from photo – Gordie Campbell, Norman and Cath Elliott-Walker, and Graham Ford

    Christmas Eve saw 11 Burnfoot Community Hub volunteers distribute 370 kilos of surplus food from local supermarkets which would have otherwise gone to waste.

    The weeks of planning the festive initiative, part of the hub’s food share scheme,  ensured that 45 families benefitted from the annual event, which was described by Burnfoot Community Futures chairwoman Zoe Hall as “the cornerstone of what the hub is all about”.

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