{"id":7135,"date":"2020-04-03T09:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolverhamptonlabour.com\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T09:59:00","slug":"leader-volunteers-to-deliver-emergency-food-parcels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/news\/leader-volunteers-to-deliver-emergency-food-parcels\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader Volunteers to Deliver Emergency Food Parcels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Leader\u00a0 has rolled up his sleeves and volunteered to deliver emergency food parcels to vulnerable residents during the coronavirus crisis. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cllr Ian Brookfield, who was formerly a nurse for 20 years, has vowed to do a full shift as a delivery driver every week \u201cfor as long as it takes\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

He did his first stint taking parcels of essential supplies to the elderly and those with underlying health conditions on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

City of Wolverhampton Council is one of the first in the country to start distributing emergency supplies to those deemed at high risk from coronavirus. It has gained national media attention for converting a leisure centre into a giant distribution hub in just a few days. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of parcels containing things like bread, pasta, tinned fruit and long life milk are being delivered to those in need each day thanks to a 24\/7 operation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cllr Brookfield said: \u201cI came down and saw all the folks here at our emergency food distribution hub and all the hard work they were doing setting it up. There are people in there who I normally see in the Civic Centre. You\u2019ve got solicitors working in there, you\u2019ve got librarians, people from leisure centres and people from across the council. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve all volunteered and I thought I\u2019d put my money where my mouth is. Having worked as a nurse in the past, I want to do my bit and so that\u2019s why I volunteered and I\u2019ll be doing this every week for as long as it takes. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWolverhampton is a fantastic place, fantastically community-minded, people always go out of their way to help each other and never more so than now. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll over the city there are groups of people, neighbours, friends and family who are helping each other. I think that shines through \u2013 people I speak to can feel that. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is something we\u2019ve always known, I am really proud of Wulfrunians today, tomorrow, next week and together we will get through this.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Leader\u00a0 has rolled up his sleeves and volunteered to deliver emergency food parcels to vulnerable residents during the coronavirus crisis. Cllr Ian Brookfield, who was formerly a nurse for 20 years, has vowed to do a full shift as a delivery driver every week \u201cfor as long as it takes\u201d. He did his first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}