by Andy Dalton
Leeds City Mission supporters have been busy climbing trees and picking apples in recent days.
Horticultural supporters of the charity recently delivered several hundred apples to the busy City Mission Compassion Centre in Mistress Lane, Armley.
Mission staff and volunteers have placed trays of apples on a table outside their premises and are inviting members of the public to come and take as many as they want for free.
Every apple is handpicked. Both eating and cooking apples are available
Compassion Centre Manager Sinclair Martin said that the apples can be eaten as fruit or used to make pies, crumbles, sauce, jams and salads. He commented that the mixture of recent rain and glorious sunshine had resulted in a bumper crop.
Sinclair added: “It makes sense to make these apples available to local people to supplement their restricted food budgets and encourage healthy eating.
“One of Leeds City Mission’s core objectives is to help people who are struggling with life in these days when the cost of living is increasing all the time.”
Trays of apples will be available at the City Mission Compassion Centre in Mistress Lane over the next two weeks. The centre is next to Westerly Rise flats and also across the road from Armley Library.
Mr Martin concluded that the provision of food at the City Mission’s foodbank is proving to be a lifeline for many local people. Also the morale of staff and volunteers has received a real boost from this generous gift of fruit from supporters.
Anyone is welcome to call at the centre between 10am to 3pm Monday to Fridays and take a quantity from the ‘apple table’ on display. Visitors are encouraged to bring a small bag with them.
Leeds City Mission is one of the oldest charities in Leeds being in continuous existence since 1837. It is a multi-church Christian agency which organises a number of projects from its premises in Mistress Lane helping people at the margins of life.
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