Accrington wholesale firm Clayton Park Bakery is continuing to support food banks in the region, having donated 62,000 products so far this year.
The company started out selling pies and sausage rolls at Blackburn market in 1995, going on to add cakes and bread products to its repertoire. Clayton Park Bakery’s sites now produce over eight million products per year and employ 167 staff.
Paul Bradley, the company’s sales and marketing manager, said: “We donate what we can, when we can, but there is a great need for more. I would encourage everyone, businesses and individuals, to support their local food bank.”
He added: “There was a strong need for the food bank before the pandemic, but now the demand is even higher. It wasn’t for donations like these many people, including children, would be going hungry. With the help of organisations like Clayton Park Bakery, we can take a step towards breaking the cycle of poverty.”
In the past 12 months Clayton Park Bakery has donated food to the Community Gateway Association Purple Pantry in Preston, the Burnley Community Kitchen, Maundy Relief in Accrington and Hyndburn Police Force, who delivered food parcels directly to the elderly and vulnerable in the region.
