Sunderland man sheds four stone and uses new found fitness to raise £700 for food bank

Fundraisers Steven Cassidy and his son, also named Steven Cassidy are joined by Sunderland Food Bank's Helen Moss after donating 390kg of food.

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00:00Okay then Steve, can you just tell me about the walk you've just done and why you're so

00:17keen to do it to support the food bank here?

00:19I lost a lot of weight due to doctors instructions and obviously felt there was a need in this

00:28area to supply some food and I had the idea to do a charity walk and got my family and

00:37my cinnamon roll group involved to try and improve my health which it has done to no

00:43end.

00:44I feel 200% better after losing 3 stone and just to put out the food for the people who

00:50need it most.

00:51And how far did you walk and how much did you race?

00:55We walked 9 miles from Woker to Marsden and back again and we raised £700 for the food

01:05and an extra £100 to go towards the Women's Refuge Centre.

01:11I understand you were at Aldi this morning getting all this stuff in then yeah?

01:14I was, I went down and I got 2 crates of food off Aldi obviously from them, all the help

01:23from Gavin and the road service obviously down there to pile it all up and my son came

01:31down to help us put it all on the cars to deliver to Helen this morning.

01:34And Stephen you were involved in the walk as well so what do you think about your dad's

01:37efforts?

01:38Yeah I couldn't be more proud of it, he's done marvellous, he's done a really good job

01:44and it's going to help families and kids, it's a big thing for my kids, helping them

01:50in the rural community of Farringdon and it's just going to help people and my dad's, can

01:56I say more really, he's been a hero, love my kids.

01:59And Helen what do you make of Stephen's efforts and just how vital has this service been in

02:03terms of this food getting used?

02:05Yeah I mean I'm personally overwhelmed that Steve has gone to so much effort to do this

02:10for us at Sunderland Foodbank and it'll make so much of a difference to a lot of families

02:17that come to our foodbanks.

02:19We desperately need donations all the time from people so it's really good, he checked

02:24what we needed so he's bought exactly what we were short of that will go into the parcels

02:29that families will receive.