Burgess Pet Care has donated £1,800 worth of pet food to Your Pet Food Bank, a charity working to help feed pets in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Your Pet Food Bank was founded by Alison Smith, who started the initiative in April 2021 with two food banks in Sheffield staffed by a small number of volunteers. Demand has ballooned since then to well over 2,000 meals per week and the team now services more than 20 different homeless shelters and community centres across Yorkshire and some parts of Lincolnshire.
Claire Douthwaite, Excel brand manager at Burgess Pet Care, said: “Every year we make generous food donations to many rescue centres across the UK but this year has been a particularly tough one for so many families, so we thought ‘why stop there?’
“We saw the amazing work that the team at Your Pet Food Bank is delivering and felt absolutely compelled to get involved. Christmas can be a very stressful financial time for families, so we wanted to make sure as many of our furry, four-legged friends as possible can have a lovely Christmas dinner on us!”
Alison Smith added: “We were absolutely delighted to receive this kind and generous donation from Burgess Pet Care. We know first-hand just how hard pet owners are finding making ends meet this year, in perishingly cold conditions, during a cost of living crisis.
“This donation will make a huge difference to owners throughout the region and will hopefully alleviate some of their stress over the festive season. Our initiative began with a simple aim: to allow owners to keep and look after their pets despite times being hard. This donation allows us to do just that.”
