Four trolley loads worth of food have been gathered at Great Dunmow Primary School as part of this year’s harvest celebrations.

Dunmow Broadcast: Great Dunmow Primary School's Harvest donations are going to Braintree Foodbank. Picture: GREAT DUNMOW PRIMARY SCHOOLGreat Dunmow Primary School's Harvest donations are going to Braintree Foodbank. Picture: GREAT DUNMOW PRIMARY SCHOOL (Image: Headteacher Kevin Watts, Great Dunmow Primary School)

The items, donated by pupils and their parents, will now be donated to Braintree Area Foodbank.

Headteacher Kevin Watts said: “I am so grateful to our families for being so generous during our Harvest celebrations.

“The school community have really excelled themselves yet again by donating to such a worthwhile charity project, especially in these unprecedented times.”

The school students brought in a range of items including tinned hot meals, sugar and dried mashed potato through to washing detergent and deodorant.

The school held an assembly and displayed the items on a table.

Foodbank partners, voluntary organisations and frontline care professionals such as health visitors, social workers and community-based support workers, identify and refer people facing hunger to the foodbank, and referals are given a foodbank voucher to access the emergency support.