A FOOD bank gratefully received a donation from a jam company.

Thurrock Foodbank was given more than 100 boxes of strawberry jam. This has been kindly donated by Rebecca Ravera from The Fruit Tree Ltd in Lancashire.

The foodbank said: “Thank you so much Rebecca, our clients will enjoy these.”

The group has seen a steady increase in demand over the last year, where they fed 4,504 people.

This is a 15 per cent increase on the previous year when they fed under 4,000 people.