Back in October we teamed up with the Frome Ghostbusters and together with you, our customers, we raised £2,500 for Fair Frome.
This post is our thank you to everyone who ordered, and our chance to shine a light on the brilliant work Fair Frome does for people in and around our area.
Who are Fair Frome?
Fair Frome is a local charity that helps people in Frome and the surrounding villages who need it most. Set up in 2014 after Frome Town Council looked into how many residents were struggling with poverty. It now works to prevent and relieve financial, educational, social and health hardship. Bringing people across backgrounds and generations together.
It is run by a small team backed by dozens of volunteers, and almost everything it does is funded by grants and donations from people and businesses like ours.
What Fair Frome does
- Food Bank: food parcels for Frome and surrounding villages.
- Community Pantry: low-cost food for anyone feeling the pinch of high food prices. Open to all who register.
- Food at Five: a hot, nutritious meal at 5pm three evenings a week, with a warm space from 4.30pm and a suggested £1 donation. Open to everyone.
- Baby Basics Bank: essentials for new parents and young families.
- Furniture Bank: collects and delivers furniture, white goods and small electricals to people setting up or rebuilding a home.
- Warm Welcome, meeting spaces and a community garden: places to get warm, get together and grow.
- Advice and campaigns: drop-in support on housing and debt, plus campaigning to make Frome a fairer, more accessible town.
How we raised it with the Frome Ghostbusters
If you read our post We met the Frome Ghostbusters, you’ll know the Frome Ghostbusters are a team of cosplayers who spend their spare time raising money for good causes. When they suggested Fair Frome as the charity to back, we didn’t need asking twice.
Throughout October we ran the ECTO20 offer. Using the code would get you 20% off your order and, for every order that used the code, Aplates donated £5 to Fair Frome.
We raised just over £2000 that we bumped up to £2,500! We met the wonderful people of Fair Frome at their Food Bank location and topped off the donation with a custom PlatePlus frame.
How you can support Fair Frome
Our cheque is one part of the picture. Fair Frome relies on the whole community, and there are plenty of easy ways to help:
- Donate food – drop long-life food at a donation point, including Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco Express, Lidl, Frome Co-op and Frome Medical Practice. The free Bank the Food app shows what’s needed most right now.
- Donate money – give through Fair Frome’s LocalGiving page, adding Gift Aid if you can.
- Christmas toy drive – drop brand-new toys and craft items at the Fair Frome Centre.
- Give furniture – good-quality furniture and white goods can find a new home through the Furniture Bank.
- Volunteer – from the food bank to Food at Five, there’s always a role for an extra pair of hands.
Thanks Frome Ghostbusters!
A huge thank you to the Frome Ghostbusters for bringing this together, to the Fair Frome team for welcoming us and for everything they do and to every customer who used ‘ECTO20’ in October. You didn’t just order a number plate – you helped put food on tables and furniture in homes.
If you’d like to back Fair Frome too, visit fairfrome.org