• 🎁 4 gifts delivered
• 👩‍👩‍👧 18 people supported
• 💡 Food parcels and vouchers provided to families of teenagers during school holidays

Natalie contacted Maundy Relief in August. The mother of three teenage children, all pupils at a local secondary school, she explained that the holidays were always a stretch – her children, as she put it, ‘eat her out of house and home’. She had always budgeted carefully and managed to get by, but this year her hours at work had been reduced and she could no longer make ends meet, despite desperately seeking additional work to cover household expenses.

Thanks to Good Gifts, Maundy Relief was able to provide a substantial food parcel every week throughout the holidays. They were also able to provide a supermarket voucher so Natalie could buy food for one of her children who is on a special diet due to a medical condition.

Natalie has since found a new job with greater security, and the family is doing well. She knows that Maundy Relief is still there if she needs them.

“I don’t know what I would have done without you this holidays – I don’t think anyone else understands how much teenagers eat! I felt like a failure as a Mum as I couldn’t put enough food on the table, but you came to our rescue – thank you so so much.”

— Natalie, Accrington, Lancashire

School holidays can place enormous strain on working, low-income families, with food budgets stretched to breaking point. Thanks to Good Gifts, Maundy Relief can provide practical, targeted support to help families get through the most difficult times – with dignity and without judgement.

Your kind and thoughtful gift allows us to support families with teenagers – ensuring no teenager goes hungry and relieving the terrible anxiety felt by parents who cannot provide enough food for their growing children.

This gift was delivered in partnership with Maundy Relief, which offers practical help and emotional support to neighbours in a very deprived part of Lancashire.