Tapestry appeals for more users to keep its food delivery service in operation

Published by Rhys Taylor-Brown on January 27th 2022, 7:07am

Innovative Hornchurch-based charity Tapestry Care UK has warned that it needs more users to sign up to its food delivery service to preserve it as part of its offering.

Tapestry’s main services revolve around providing support to the elderly and those living with dementia, with a focus on preventative care and support at home.

However, the charity launched a food delivery service at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, which has since delivered over 28,000 meals to vulnerable people locally. Service users pay £8.50 for a hot two-course meal to be delivered direct to their home.

Tapestry has had to subsidise the service from its own reserves in recent months, after prior funding from the National Lottery and Barclays was withdrawn. Now, CEO Anthony Lowe has warned that it may not be financially viable to continue providing the service with the level of usage it currently has.

Lowe told the Romford Recorder: “We are a charity and a social business, so for us to keep the service going the solution is simple, we just need more people to use it. It really is a ‘use it or lose it’ situation.

“We know there are many more people who need and would benefit from the service, we just need to make people aware it’s here for them.”

Photo by Aaron Doucett on Unsplash

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