SWINDON Soroptimists celebrated their 10th year of volunteering at the town's Big Breakfast Plus charity by donating fairtrade food to its clients for Fairtrade Fortnight.
Almost every month since 2009, a rota of two to three members of the Swindon Soroptimists have volunteered on a Saturday morning at 7am to help the Big Breakfast Plus team provide the most important meal of the day to homeless and struggling Swindonians. The Soroptimists donated bananas, cocoa and chocolate to grateful attendees of the charity's regular breakfast sessions throughout the last fortnight.
President Valerie Nuttall said: “The Swindon club felt it was important to remember those in our society who may also be struggling and hoped that easily transportable and energy-giving bananas and chocolate would go down well. The Big Breakfast charity now operates at the Haven and is a very worthwhile organisation which we are delighted to support. Fairtrade Fortnight is about recognising that there are still others who might be worse off than we are and that women cocoa farmers work harder yet have fewer rights than men."
Big Breakfast Plus just marked 25 years of helping the homeless in Swindon and originally began as the Broadgreen Breakfast Club.
For more information about the Swindon Soroptimists, visit sigbi.org/swindon
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