Highland construction company chips in £5000 to help food bank during winter
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Construction company Tulloch Homes has donated £5000 to the Highland Food Bank at Inverness to help those in need this winter.
It is in addition to the £8000 the company has donated to the charity, based in Glebe Street, since the start of the coronavirus lockdown.
Food bank chairman James Campbell said: "This is a wonderful seasonal gesture from a local company with a track record of benefiting community causes.
"Their funding once lockdown began, was crucial in helping us to bulk buy supplies as we rapidly hit peak demand.
"Now, they have come to the rescue for the winter period, when so many are experiencing hardship.
"We’re sending food vans from Inverness as far as Tain and Aviemore, so we’re extremely grateful for Tulloch’s generosity."
Tulloch Homes chief executive George Fraser said: "When the virus first came to our area, our instinct was to help the food bank, a place where basic needs are met.
"With not having any staff Christmas parties this year, we felt it appropriate to provide funds to try to ensure that people don’t go hungry in the depths of winter.
"We see this as the ideal way to end our 95th anniversary year."
Food bank manager Lorna Dempster said the organisation was currently feeding 30 people a day at Glebe Street who had been referred by frontline professionals such as doctors, health visitors and social workers.
"Local people were incredibly generous during lockdown, with high levels of donated food," she said.
"That has inevitably reduced which is why the fantastic £5000 from Tulloch will be so valuable over the next few months."
In September, Tulloch Homes donated its five-figure sponsorship of the Camanachd Cup final even though the shinty tournament was cancelled due to the virus.
