Toy Appeal reaches 5,000 children in poverty
More than 5,000 children in poverty in North and East London will have a special gift to open this Christmas thanks to the kindness of strangers. Despite the cost-of-living crisis and inflation driving up the cost of toys, the Winter Toy Appeal, had a fantastic response, with hundreds of people donating. Organised by the Local Buyers Club in partnership with Location Location estate agency and the Hackney Children and Baby Bank, the appeal is in its ninth year and distributes
The People’s Pantry: Sustainable, sociable shopping
It might not be the fastest milk float in the West, but Ernie could well be the greenest! This trusty 1972 float is the face of The People’s Pantry, a zero-waste refill service born in lockdown by husband-and-wife Lisa Jones and Stephen Thomas (known to his friends as Thomo). No sooner had they come up with the idea of running a mobile refill store, than Lisa had quit her job in PR, gone online and bought a milk float on E-bay, converted a room in their house to store stock a