Yesterday, for the first week ever in our 16 month commitment to Wednesdays at Oxford Mutual Aid, we arrived at the food bank to find no food parcels left to pack! There's always plenty to be done around the hall so we set about making up portions of tea bags, bagging up nappies and putting away a donation of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Before too long 5 Emergency food requests came in, so we quickly pivoted to prepare those for collection within the hour.

We're delighted to see OMA managing so well with their own team of volunteers these days, so we now plan to reduce our commitments there a little. We'll always be available if needed but we won't be doing a food bank shift every Wednesday.