Trays of sandwiches and a birthday cake is laid out below a gazebo, with food being passed around a community garden by young families sitting and talking.
Today’s event at the Independence Initiative on Balliol Road, Bootle, may be making the most of the weather to hold what would appear a late summer fayre, but it’s in fact the calm before the storm. “This the hardest crisis we've ever faced without doubt,” Jim Brett, chief executive of the organisation told the ECHO.
Today marks one year since the charity organisation launched its ‘Indy Pantry’, an scheme that stemmed from the number of those getting help from the charity who were “continually asking for referrals to food banks”, according to Jim.
