PORT Glasgow-based McLaren Packaging has donated boxes in support of Inverclyde Council/Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)’s £130,000 Warm Hand of Friendship initiative.
Care packages are being provided to 500 vulnerable Inverclyde residents to help them stay warm this winter, while emergency food centres are also being set up amid the cost-of-living crisis.
‘Warm boxes’ have been made up by HSCP and are being delivered to those who most need them, with the council organising food centres at locations in Greenock and Port Glasgow to support anyone struggling over the festive period.
Each warm box contains gloves, scarves, hat, flask, and torch. Some also have puzzle books and pencils.
The boxes have been donated by McLaren Packaging with C&A Home Store commissioned to stock and pack them.
Michael McLaren, sales and marketing director, said, “As a family firm with deep roots in our local community, we are delighted to do what we can to help support vital local services at the time the most vulnerable in our community need them most.”
Funding for the boxes was provided by Inverclyde HSCP as part of the overall Warm Hand of Friendship scheme.
For more information, visit www.inverclyde.gov.uk/warmspaces.
