The annual delivery of Christmas food parcels to local people was made by Wimborne and Ferndown Lions Club. A parcel is in fact a shopping bag containing 25 or so non-perishable food items.
Lions normally supply about 80 parcels, but this year demand went up to more than 120, reflecting the current crisis.
Club members filled bags with items from supplies purchased from local supermarkets.
The bags were then delivered as a Christmas gift to local people who have been notified to the Lions.
The recipients have been identified by local Social Services, Citizens Advice Bureau or GPs, etc, as people for whom the parcels will be of most benefit.
This year the bags were divided into two lists, for individuals and for families, with the family bags having correspondingly larger versions of the items.
The split was two thirds family, one third individual.
The picture shows some of the assembled bags before they were distributed.
The club would like to give a big thank-you to the Ferndown Guides for the use of their hall for the parcels assembly.