Intack In The Community

Providing Free School Lunches for school aged children within the borough.

An innovative scheme called the Blackburn and Darwen Summer Lunchbox Project, run by charity Kingdom Outreach and supported by Blackburn with Darwen Council has been launched to help struggling families by providing free packed lunches to children.

The initiative aims to tackle ‘holiday hunger’ and plug the gap for families during summer holidays who normally receive free school lunches during term time. It sees up to 50 volunteers making around 5,000 sandwiches per week to cater for the 1,080 children whose families have signed up for the six week long holiday period.

Rummage Rescuers is a community-driven organisation based in Blackburn, Lancashire and through our outlets, has been supporting local people with household items, clothing and many other items at affordable prices.

Founder, Liz Crook, started Rummage Rescuers in 2015 to address the needs of Blackburn with Darwen residents, The first shop to open was the Mill Hill shop, based in the bustling and thriving community of Mill Hill itself. Our second shop, 5C Town Hall St is based in the heart of Blackburn’s town centre and both shops offer a range of clothing, shoes, small household items and accessories, donated stock comes to the shops via the local community and organisations.