GENEROUS Post readers have helped smash a target to collect five tons of tins for hard-up families this Christmas.
Schools, churches, businesses and community groups showed their festive spirit and got behind our campaign, flooding the city's food banks with 11.4 tons of tins – more than double the amount we set out to achieve two months ago. That's about the same weight as two African elephants.
The food will go to help people like Kathleen Gibbons, 49, who was supported by the St Ann's food bank. The mother-of-two said: "The food bank helped us so much. They really are life savers."
Two of the biggest donations came from Gedling Borough Council, which gave three tons, and the Co-op supermarket chain, which gave 1.6.
