Frustrated charity workers discovered a key part of the foodbank and community space they run had been smashed up by vandals. Emmeline’s Pantry, who asked for their location not to be disclosed, had their community polytunnel, used for toddler groups and as a safe area for families, vandalised and broken into on Wednesday night (July 27).
The charity currently helps around 40 families a week through the foodbank but staff noticed that the polytunnel had been damaged and reviewed their cameras to see a group of three teenagers jumping a fence and vandalising the structure.
The charity have not released the CCTV of the teenagers, but staff say they are 'thoroughly disappointed' with the damage. Emmeline’s Pantry is more than a foodbank and also offers learning and play groups for babies and toddlers as well as a space for mothers and victims of gender-based violence to come to.
