A convenience store in the heart of Newcastle's West End is giving away thousands of free loaves of bread to families struggling to put food on the table.
Westerhope Convenience Store has handed out a massive 40,000 loaves to the local community since the start of the Covid crisis in March 2020. The idea was the brainchild of store owner Sheraz Awan, 42, the owner after witnessing the struggles of what his customers were going through.
He felt he had to do something to help people who were being hit hard by the pandemic. He said: "In 2020 we were giving away 1,000 loaves of bread a day totalling that to 70,000 loaves of bread a week.
