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A CARE home "task force" is helping community food banks in their bid to support families in need over the Christmas period.
It follows the introduction of food donation boxes at Colten Care’s head office at Ringwood and its 21 care homes in Hampshire, Dorset and two other counties.
Staff, residents’ families and other donors have dropped off hundreds of essential items.
Colten employees have helped by taking donations direct to their nearest food bank, seeing first-hand how parcels are assembled and distributed.
Lorraine Bell, of Linden House, Lymington, said she was left "humbled and in awe" following her visit to the New Forest Basics Bank.