Ambitious plans for Housing Matters and food bank
A director of Housing Matters and the Island's food bank says the charities have ambitions to further help those in need.
Neil Mellon is currently working to get the Co-op involved in Fare Share, which co-ordinates the redistribution of out-of-date food from supermarkets to charities.
He says there are plans to expand the organisations' operations:
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