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    BUILDING COMMUNITIES

    Jul 05, 2021 4 minutes

    Jo Gilbert set up The Hygiene Bank Doncaster from her living room two years ago.

    Now one of the largest and busiest Hygiene Bank projects in the UK, in 2020 the Doncaster branch distributed 45,835kg of products to 42 community partners, 10 schools and a number of local authority organisations. They raised more than £32,000 in funding to buy hygiene essentials and pay for storage, and at the end of the year they secured a £60,000 grant from Doncaster City Council and the DWP to support their Covid response work in 2021.

    “Between January and March 2021 our products got to 5,700 adults and 4,900 children – which is

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