COMMUNITY OUTREACH
We believe no child in our city should go hungry
In 2003 the Rev Tony Kerswell, at All Saints Church on Monks Road, had a vision for a project which would help the families of children, who were entitled to free school meals during term time, cope with feeding their children during the school holidays.
The MASH (Monks Abbey School Holidays) project was born.
Families were given monetary vouchers which would be exchanged for a varietyof foods in the local shops, 1 voucher for each week of the holidays.
Due its success MASH has been adopted by other churches in Lincoln and has had a name change - FiSH (Food in School Holidays)
The project is aimed at JAM families (Just about managing)
Families who are not entitled to claim benefits but are struggling to feed their children.
The voucher system is currently used for the summer holiday period, but in recent times we have provided food hampers for Christmas and Easter, given to 50 families identified through the staff at Monks Abbey Primary School.
If you would like to know more about FiSH, then please see Elspeth or Malcolm for further detail and how you can financially support this project.
Would you like to donate to our FiSH Project?
FiSH in the local community
Monks Abbey School FiSH Project
This year we are hoping to give 123 children food vouchers worth £8 for each week of the summer school holidays. We thank you that we have already been so blessed by the generosity of the church in helping fund this community project but unfortunately, we still have a shortfall of £2,573 to find to enable us to help each child in need in this way for each of the 6 weeks.