The Glasgow NE Foodbank, although a registered charity in its own right, operates under the umbrella of the Trussell Trust charity, which runs a network of 420 foodbanks across the UK and last year fed over 346,000 people across the country.
The Glasgow NE Foodbank has been running for two years during which time it has supplied food to more than 5,300 people, and operates six centres from a central hub at Parkhead in Glasgow.
The Foodbank will use the free van, a Renault Kangoo ML 1.9DCI eco2 model, to ferry food supplies from the central hub out to its satellite centres, as well as collecting food from local supermarkets and making other collections.
The Foodbank is also planning to use the Renault van deliver to the elderly and the infirm, who cannot make the journey to the centres themselves.
Fleet Alliance, which manages around 18,000 vehicles nationally on behalf of corporate clients, has initiated a number of charity initiatives this year as part of the Corporate Social Responsibility policy it calls ‘Fleet Alliance Loves’. Since 2008 the company’s fund-raising efforts have accumulated more than £230,000 for worthy causes.