BARRATT Homes West Midlands played a significant part in helping people who struggled to buy food for themselves over the festive period by creating Food Bank collection points across the regional patch including its sales office at Goodwin Park on Stoney Lane in Kidderminster.

A total of 13 million people live below the poverty line in the UK. In 2012-13 foodbanks fed 346,992 people nationwide and of those helped, 126,889 were children. Rising costs of food and fuel combined with static income, high unemployment and changes to benefits are causing more and more people to go to foodbanks for help.

The Kidderminster Food Bank is one of more than 380 foodbanks providing emergency food to people in crisis nationwide.

Maureen Lewis, of the Kidderminster Food Bank, said: “We were thrilled when we got the call from Barratt asking if they could help with the food collections. The need for food is growing and we struggle to meet the demand so for Barratt to come forward like this really helped.”

Tanya Silk, Sales Manager for Barratt Homes West Midlands, commented: “We are pleased to be able to say that we helped those in difficulty in the local community who needed food to eat around Christmas and the New Year.

“The Kidderminster Food Bank is a worthy cause to support and we would urge anybody who has something spare to visit their local collection point to donate some food.”

Goodwin Park offers three and four bedroom houses priced from £164,000 to £250,000. For more information please call the sales centre on 01562 750195 open daily from 10am to 5pm.

Alternatively, please call the sales information centre on 0844 811 9933 open seven days a week from 8am to 9pm or log on to www.barratthomes.co.uk/goodwinpark.

Barratt West Midlands has been awarded the maximum five star official rating from the Home Builders Federation (HBF) for the fourth year in a row. The news was announced after more than 20,000 new home buyers across the country took part in this year’s HBF customer satisfaction survey.