East Bristol Foodbank has already experienced a significant increase in the past week of people in need of emergency food parcels. The Wild Goose pop-up service running outside Stapleton Road Chapel is continuing to serve takeaway drinks and snacks to our usual service users. On the first day, they served 70 people. We are operating under government instructions of social distancing for all involved in the projects; service users, volunteers and staff. This has caused additional and unplanned costs for us e.g. disposable gloves, disposable cups and packing boxes for food parcels. As lock down is enforced, the Foodbank team are looking at moving to a delivery service. This will increase fuel costs monumentally. At present, we are focusing on the immediate and ongoing effects of the pandemic, but the long term effects for homeless and vulnerable people in Bristol are yet to be seen. We will need your donations to ensure we can remain to be there for those who need us most.