FOOD BANKS across Bradford are appealing for extra items to help families cope during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Bradford Central Food Bank says it is still open and is doing everything it can to find ways to keep providing food to hungry families during the crisis.

A notice on its website says: "We need the Bradford public to pull together to keep donating food or giving cash so that we can keep the service running.

They also say they want to set up a delivery service to the vulnerable who are self-isolating and ask for volunteer drivers to get in touch.

It has moved to new larger premises at the Jubilee Centre in Jermyn Street so that staff can have more space. They are in desperate need of small and large UHT juice, soup, instant mash, cuppa soups, tinned tomatoes, tinned meat, tinned fish or donate cash.

The Bradford North Food Bank is urgently asking for: UHT milk, UHT fruit juice (1l or 3 x individual), breakfast cereals - all sizes, dried milk powder, instant mash, tinned tomatoes, granulated sugar 1kg or 2kg, tinned custard / rice-pudding, tinned fruit.

Last week the T&A reported that volunteers are being allowed to pack up food parcels at Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank’s city centre base and representatives of approved agencies are collecting them to distribute to families in poverty and others in need.

They say they are still in need of long life milk, breakfast cereal, tins of soup, fruit and rice pudding, tins of meat or fish.

Bradford Hindu Council has organised some food collections for the homeless and the food bank to be held on Sunday, April 5.

They will be collecting vegetable food items between 10am and 2pm at Shree Laxminarayan Hindu Mandir on Leeds Road, Lidget Green Sai Centre on Legrams Lane, and Shree Prajapati Association Mandir on Thornton Lane.