{"id":145382,"date":"2018-06-23T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/urgent-appeal-after-bournemouth-food-bank-trashed\/"},"modified":"2018-06-23T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T14:03:09","slug":"urgent-appeal-after-bournemouth-food-bank-trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/urgent-appeal-after-bournemouth-food-bank-trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent appeal after Bournemouth food bank trashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claire Matthews, founder of Hope For Food\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/D315\/production\/_102173045_foodbank4.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      Claire Matthews said the charity needed urgent donations of non-perishable goods                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A food bank in Bournemouth is appealing for emergency donations after burglars stole a month&#039;s worth of goods intended for families in need.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers at Hope For Food said the site was trashed, causing \u00a33,000 of damage, and 90% of food, clothes, toiletries and toys were taken. <\/p>\n<p>More than 400 families will be affected following the burglary on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Claire Matthews said: &quot;We&#039;ve got beans and soup but the rest of it has gone. It beggars belief.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Hope for food<figcaption>Image caption                                      Burglars caused damage totalling \u00a33,000                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She added: &quot;It&#039;s going to have a huge impact on our families. One family we needed to get food to yesterday, but we didn&#039;t have any. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;A van was supposed to go out tomorrow but there&#039;s nothing to go into the van. They&#039;ve [the burglars] taken a good month&#039;s worth of food.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Families are going to get a meagre offering of the basics instead of the normal hamper we give out.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The organisation, based on the West Howe Industrial Estate, has appealed for urgent donations of non-perishable goods such as tins of food, pasta, biscuits, sauces in jars and squash.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Hope for food<figcaption>Image caption                                      Thieves stole nearly all the toiletries stored on shelves                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toiletries needed include nappies, toothpaste and shampoo. <\/p>\n<p>Dorset police officers were at the scene investigating the burglary and the vandalism, which includes smashed windows and fridges left open, with ready meals thrown on the floor. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Matthews said: &quot;We just can&#039;t believe people would do such a cruel thing.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Claire Matthews said the charity needed urgent donations of non-perishable goods A food bank in Bournemouth is appealing for emergency donations after burglars stole a month&#039;s worth of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}