LENDING a helping hand to those who have no where to go, the care group who provide central support for Hatherleigh Nursing Home recently handed over £500 worth of supplies.

Office workers from Evolve Care Group, who provide the central support for Hatherleigh Nursing Home, which is located on Hawthorn Park in Devon, donated £500 of food supplies and sleeping bags to the homeless.

Commercial director for Evolve Care Group, Sian Harris said: “We provide care for the elderly in our state of the art nursing homes. Unfortunately, many older people in Bristol are not so lucky and are forced to sleep on the streets. As a socially responsible company, we are delighted to try and help them.”

Workers from Evolve Care Group are given an annual charity budget of £100,000 to support local causes. As this winter gets colder the group have chosen to spend some of this budget on food, blankets, sacks and sleeping bags for the homeless.

Marvin Rees, mayor of Bristol, said: “My thanks go to everyone at Evolve Care Group involved in these donations for some of Bristol’s most vulnerable residents. This is a good example of the momentum and resource we can bring together across the city, working as a whole greater than the sum of its parts.”

Over twenty members of the central support team switched off their computers early and personally handed out the supplies to people on the streets.