A REDDITCH gardener and author is switching her gardening shoes for walking boots to raise money for a food bank charity.
Margot Bish from Abbeydale is walking 30 minutes a day for 30 days to raise £100 for The Trussell Trust.
She aims to complete the challenge throughout September.
Margot said: “Did you know that food banks in the Trussell Trust network distributed close to three million emergency food parcels between April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023?
“This is the most parcels that the network has ever distributed in a financial year and represents a 37 per cent increase from the same period in 2021/22.
“This is also the first time that food banks in the Trussell Trust network have provided more than a million parcels for children, with record levels of need seen for both children and adults this year.”
Margot usually cycles throughout the day to get to her gardening jobs but will now be walking.
She added: “One fifth of the country is struggling with debt and the interest rates are still rising making the debt harder and harder to pay.
“These are people who are working and made sensible decisions about whether they could afford to have children but never saw energy bills quadrupling whilst their wages stayed the same.
“If anyone is earning more than they need, please can they spare a couple of pounds to help those who can’t find enough to eat through no fault of their own.
“This is the only way we can get back in control of inflation as employers that see their employees hungry will feel the need to increase wages and this in turn increases inflation as they raise their prices to pay for the pay rises.”
Visit https://trusselltrust.enthuse.com/pf/margot-bish-dfc8e to donate.
