Appeal for donations for city homeless support project

University staff and students can support a new grassroots community project which works directly with homeless people in Lincoln.

The University of Lincoln UNISON Branch is supporting the local ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ initiative, a project staffed entirely by volunteers, which each Saturday night provides a menu of freshly prepared food and other essentials for people living on the streets from a base at the Mint Lane Cafe.

University staff and students can support the project through donations of long shelf-life food and other items. The project’s current “most needed” list includes:

Sleeping bags
Drawstring bags (of the ‘PE kit’ variety – these can be filled with essential items such as toiletries)
Bottled water
Squash
Coffee
Tea
Hot Chocolate
Sugar
Disposable cups/plates/bowls/cutlery
Takeaway trays
Antibac wipes
Snack items such as bags of crisps, chocolate bars etc
Cakes/brioche (with a long use by date)
Instant beverage cups (the kind you just add hot water to)
Toiletries (men’s and women’s) including shower gel, shampoo, toothpaste and toothbrushes
Suncream

Donations can be dropped off at the UNISON branch office in Room MB0407, Ground Floor, Minerva Building, Brayford Campus. For more information about the project and the UNISON branch’s local support for it, please contact Sue Partridge, UNISON Branch Administrator, on email spartridge@lincoln.ac.uk or telephone 01522 886883.