Food bank idea

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  1. Tyk

    Tyketicus Active Member

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    ive been talking to various footy supporters about setting up collection points for our local food bank

    NUFC SupportersTrust‏ @nufctrust 38m38 minutes ago
    Replying to @oldwolf1887 @BarnsleyFC
    Go for it! NUFC Fans Foodbank was started by fans about a year ago influenced by similar initiatives on Merseyside and Glasgow.The FSF have started off a national Fans Foodbank initiative.#hungerdoesnotwearclubcolours

    i am willing to help organise this but i need help from the club and a few volunteers

    what do people think?
     
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  2. Tyk

    Tyketicus Active Member

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    and could any admins or whitey type folks close to the club help me who to contact?

    imsure it wqould fit in with our community ethos
     
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    I’d be happy to help mate in whatever way I can.
     
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    Liverpool and Everton make a joint event and have a group called fans supporting food banks- they have a group on Twitter if you want to contact them. Great idea and good luck
     
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    It’s a great idea. Absolutely makes my heart break that food banks are seen as a normal part of society.

    The government be it red/blue or multicoloured should do everything in its power to ensure its people can afford chuffing basic food!!
     
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    I think it’s a great idea.
     
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    If you want advice and help I suggest you speak to Mark Reasbeck who is a Minister and founder of the Gateway Church. Mark was instrumental in establishing food banks in Barnsley before it was taken over by the 'Trussel Foundation'. He also works as a steward on matchdays on gangway 12 in the upper east stand. A 'top, top bloke'.
     
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    Don,t believe foodbanks help at all people get to reliant on them
    Maybe if they stopped the fags and booze and lived within there means they would,nt need to rely on them
     
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    About the biggest load of rubbish I’ve ever read on here. You should be ashamed.
     
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    That’s such a bizarre way of looking at poverty in general and specifically those within our own community that are in desperate need.

    As for the OP, I’m more than happy to help @Tyketicus, I think it’s a fantastic idea.
     
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    My friend had to use them for a couple of months. She's a teacher who wanted to leave her controlling husband. The house was in his name as his parents bought it for him but she still had to pay what they considered to be the mortgage amount owed to them each month. She had also been talked into paying the bills as she made more money at the time and they had 'given' her this house. She was getting by all right but she had barely nothing left over to save each month. When she put the plans together to secretly move out and into a flat by herself, she had to pay signing fees, a month's deposit, 5 weeks rent upfront plus basic furniture, all kitchen crockery/cutlery, bedding and towels etc. She didn't tell us at the time how much she was struggling and she admitted afterwards that she had never been as embarrassed in all her life. She's never smoked and only drinks the same as anyone (and not at all during that period) but she desperately needed that food bank provision to be able to make a break for it.
     
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    Foodbanks are just symptomatic of the many problems in society caused by the pursuit of austerity and greed. Pay people enough to live without benefits, stop cancelling benefits at a moments notice (including last week because a assessor failed to turn up to an interview) and removing benefits from the disabled and perhaps we wouldn't need them.
     
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    Although badly worded there is some sense behind this rational.
    Unfortunatley we live in a society that in general terms is very much credit reliant and wanting it now with skint disregard of how to pay for it.
    Just look at the furore over the latest iphone release...
    Its not just those who you could sterotype as brighthouse clients but through out society.
    Far too many people including those who are educated formally lack competency with household budgeting and general common sense when it comes to money.
    It wont eradicate foodbanks but educating people about money how to prioritise what they pay out for and so forth will go a long way to helping households.
     
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    Both sides of the above have a case. There are people who just use them so they can spend their cash on booze and fags etc. However, there are people who genuinely need and rely on them to be able to eat through no fault of their own. I think it's unfair to tarnish the second category by bringing up the first lot.
     
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    Not against food banks if it goes to the right people. For example i was in a shop just this morning behind a couple who were discussing best time for them to go to food bank then got themselves 120 fags and 30 quids worth of scratchcards.
     
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    The thing is, those people clearly need help with their addictions. Taking food away from them wouldn't necessarily mean that they would then be able to just give up those things to spend the money on food, they'd just starve themselves or find ways to beg/borrow/steal off of people. They still need the foodbank they just need help aswell which I know most foodbanks do try and provide, they are more than a place that just blindly hands out boxes of food. This way, they have something to eat and a place that checks up on them and tries to support them, if all foodbanks disappeared they wouldn't have anyone at all looking out for them and they may spiral down even worse.
     
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    It could well be the case that they are addicted to the scratch cards etc, but on the other hand they could indeed be really selfish and make conscious decisions to obtain the food bank items so they don't have to part with the money.. I'm sure the latter scenario is not representative of the majority of food bank users though. As with virtually everything in life, it's always the minority that people focus on if they are wrong doing. Look at benefit cheats (minority) or indeed football hooligans (minority), they tarnish the good name of the majority through their actions.
     
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    Shitpost.
     
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    im not sure how to progress this. i think i/we would need the clubs support
     

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