At the meeting of the Kirk Session and the ACTS Group last Thursday evening it was agreed that we would support the work of the Fare Share Group in Harris.

Fare Share provides a confidential food and other support service to people in Harris and have been doing this since the start of the first lockdown. Some of the food comes from the National Fare Share scheme and is supplemented by donations locally. This is different to the Western Isles Food-bank where all donations go to Stornoway and where folk need to go and collect if they are in need. With the Fare Share scheme people let us know they are in need of help and we will arrange for a box of food and other support to be dropped off by one of our volunteers.

In response to the current cost of living crisis we are putting together Support Boxes to give to anyone who may be finding it difficult to keep warm. Things like gloves, hats, also torches, batteries, candles, matches, etc that folk would need, even if they do not necessarily need food boxes. It is hoped to launch this at the Charities Fayre in the Community Centre at the start of December.

We are therefore setting the Sunday morning services on 20th and 27th November as opportunities for anyone who wants to help to bring tins of food stuff to donate. We will have special boxes in the Macrae Centre for these. If anyone would like to know more about this scheme, please speak to Kenny Macleod, Agnes Morrison or Mairi Maciver at CLD in the Comhairle Offices.