For the past five years Chiltern Cold Storage Group Ltd has supported Crisis, the homeless charity, with their ‘Crisis at Christmas’ campaign.
If you are homeless or living in hostel accommodation, Christmas can be a lonely and depressing time. Crisis at Christmas has helped to alleviate that loneliness by providing Christmas Centres across London from 23rd to 30th December that offer vital companionship, hot meals and warmth, and a wide range of essential services that homeless people often miss out on.
Chiltern provides professional logistics assistance annually to Crisis. The charity need to store and transport frozen, chilled and ambient food to each of their nine centres so that they can provide three hot and nutritious meals every day. Chiltern enable Crisis to overcome these logistical challenges by storing the donated food at their Peterborough site. The items are then delivered by Chiltern into London, where the refrigerated trailers are left with Crisis. The charity then distributes the food to each of the centres when required. Without the trailers and storage capacity provided by Chiltern, Crisis at Christmas would certainly be very different.
In the case of Chiltern, the phrase “without whose help this event would not be been possible,” applies literally. Neil Kennedy, Gifts - in - kind manager, from Crisis said, “We are so grateful for Chiltern’s support each year. Their contribution over the past five years has been absolutely critical for the success of the operation and, to make possible the pioneering Crisis’ services that genuinely change lives.”
As Crisis at Christmas entered its fortieth year, the demand for the services were very high given the harsh economic climate and poor outlook for homeless people. People arrive at the nine centres during Christmas for many reasons, but for all of them it can be the start of a new phase of hope.
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