Dalvie Donates

Last night, Dalvie's Director (Tom Mckelvie) and Marketing Assistant (Tasha Hinde) took a trip down to Telford Foodbank's headquarters in Madeley for a rather hands on experience!

The Dalvie team, who have recently sent a donation of three bays of heavy duty garment hanging units to the Foodbank, offered to help assemble the bays that they had provided. With over twenty years experience in the storage and racking industry, Tom felt he was the man for the job as he grabbed a mallet and got stuck in whilst Jake - the Telford Crisis Network Coordinator - was on hand to hold the racking still! Meanwhile Tasha made herself useful by passing poles, beams and chipboard decks over and of course, photographing the whole affair...

A B O U T   T H E   F O O D B A N K

Telford Foodbank (also known as the Telford Crisis Network) is a Telford-based charity offering support to members of the public in crisis. This support can come in all manner of ways but mainly they offer food, clothing and advice to those who need it. Recently they've received a number of clothing donations which have, up until now, been stored in bin bags or plastic boxes. This has been a useful storage system for the time being, however it does not make for an easy job of finding clothing (particularly in the correct size) when a person in crisis shows up.

T H E   H A R D   P A R T 

It took just shy of an hour (15 minutes of which was spent unwrapping the packaging!) however after a lot of hard work and labour from Tom and Jake, the charity now have a nice long run of garment hanging racking which can be used to hang up clothing for men, women and children - and all in size order too. A much easier and far more dignified way of going about things!

When asked why they chose to donate garment railing to Telford Foodbank, Tasha (Marketing Assistant at Dalvie Systems) said:

"I've been working alongside and donating clothes to the charity for a while now which led me to understand their needs for a more appropriate clothing storage solution. After having a chat with the Director, Tom, we came to the conclusion that it would be good to offer the Foodbank some heavy duty garment railing as a more dignified browsing solution for people coming in to collect clothing."

"We decided to donate a more durable and heavy duty solution because we understand that some people in crisis are in fact sleeping rough and therefore there is a great need for winter clothing to be supplied to them. With winter clothing (coats, jumpers etc) being quite heavy, it seemed a good idea to invest in some sturdy rails and racking frames which will hopefully last for years to come!"

T H A N K S   D A L V I E !

"Thank you so much for this gift that brings some dignity to the whole process of helping people in crisis who have nothing and call upon our clothes bank when times are hard. Thanks for coming over to put it all up too! You can tell from the photo (below) who it was doing the hard graft. Thanks Tom and thank you Dalvie Systems!"

Jake Bennett | Telford Crisis Network Coordinator 

If you'd like to make a food or clothing donation to the Foodbank on behalf of your company, or even personally, then please do drop them an email! At the moment they're desperately trying to get hold of some clothing hangers so if you're a clothing company with a surplus of coat hangers going spare then they'd really love to hear from you! Additionally, the room where the garment hanging is stored is in need of re-decoration / flooring... If you think you could help with this then (again) please get in touch!