MP MAKES A DIFFERENCE WITH MEALS ON WHEELS
MP MAKES A DIFFERENCE WITH MEALS ON WHEELS AS DUDLEY COUNCIL DRIVES OFF
Stourbridge MP Lynda Waltho will be joining Community Service Volunteers (CSV) Make a Difference Day on Saturday when she helps the WRVS with their meals on wheels in the town.
Lynda said: “I always try to join in with the Make a Difference Day every year along with hundreds of my fellow citizens who undertake voluntary duties and activities every day. Stourbridge has a fine tradition of volunteering and I’m really proud to represent a town with such a great record in the voluntary sector”
WRVS Meals on Wheels organiser Jan Webb said:
“We welcome Lynda’s continued support as our local MP. It’s great that she’s taking an interest and coming to meet our volunteers and service users. Our great concern at the moment is the withdrawal of the Council’s funding for this valuable service”
Lynda Waltho MP continued: “I’m particularly glad to be helping the WRVS with meals on wheels this year as they have to take up many requests for meals from elderly people who have been abandoned by Dudley Council, when they announced the complete closure of their meals service for elderly people.
“The council put up the cost of meals to such an extent that many of our most vulnerable and elderly people when they are not able to afford continue using the service. I hope that many of them will take up the WRVS service instead”
"Dudley Council should restore funding to the WRVS or this service will be undermined. It costs WRVS £50 a week for instance, to hire vans to deliver the meals. Why can’t the council do something practical instead of reducing the WRVS to find sponsors for each van?”
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