No one should have to go hungry in the world of convenience we live in, unfortunately there are still far too many people (families), many hard working, who are living below the poverty line. The food bank isn't necessarily a life changing cause, but it could be life saving and it definitely makes a difference.

There's often a big spike in donations up to and around Christmas, but it generally dies away soon after. In light of this, I would just like to do my part to hopefully raise some money and year round awareness for what is probably an easily overlooked and great cause in our city.

Initially I've got a few events/challenges to see through which will hopefully spur you on with your generous donations and I'm hoping to add a few more as I stumble across things!

- Run 1000 Miles in 2018 (Started January 1st)

- Sunderland Half Marathon (Sunday 13th May)

- Gateshead Trail 10k (Saturday 11th August)

I'll update things as I go here and on our facebook page, which you can see at https://www.facebook.com/MabelsMatesSunderland/

https://sunderland.foodbank.org.uk