Plastic bottles and cans donations yield funds for Carrick-on-Suir meals service

It costs €120,000 a year for Carrick-on-Suir Meals Assistance Services to provide and deliver nourishing dinners five days a week to clients and it depends on fundraising efforts and public donations to achieve this.

Carrick Meals Assistance Services Committee Chairman Eddie Reade paid tribute to the people of Carrick-on-Suir and surrounding communities for their huge generosity in supporting the work of the group through donations and fundraising events.

Public donations of empty plastic bottles and drinks cans have become a regular and simple funding stream for Carrick-on-Suir Meals Assistance Services since the Government introduced the Deposit Return Scheme last year.

Deposits paid back from disposing of these waste containers is helping to fund the purchase of food and other expenses the service incurs.

He said the group has plastic bottles and cans collection bins at the rear of Carrickbeg Community Centre where the dinners are cooked daily and welcomes receipt of donations of either from local people.

They can be dropped into the centre at the top of Friary Hill between Mondays and Fridays from 9am to 12.30pm when Meals Assistance Services volunteers are working there.

Mr Reade thanked Lisaddober Pub near Ballyneale and Cooney’s Bar on Main Street for donating their weekly collection of used drinks cans to the Meals Assistance Services.

Anyone interested in making a financial donation to Carrick-on-Suir Meals Assistance Services should contact Eddie Reade at (083) 325 3337 or message Carrick-on-Suir Meals Assistance Services' Facebook page.

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