{"id":29130,"date":"2025-04-18T02:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29130\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:46:14","slug":"eggstra-special-easter-donation-by-yorkshire-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29130\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggstra special Easter donation by Yorkshire engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RWO-Leeds-foodbank-donation.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A firm of Yorkshire engineers has made an egg-cellent donation to a Leeds food bank, helping to put a big smile on the face of local families.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Easter eggs from Leeds-based RWO have been donated to the Leeds South and East Foodbank, which distributes donations across the city at sites in Beeston, Harehills and Gipton.<\/p>\n<p>This much-needed resource, which relies on contributions from local businesses and donations from the public, hands out thousands of emergency food parcels to people in need and supports vulnerable families every year.<\/p>\n<p>The kind-hearted donation comes as RWO recognises it can be hard for families struggling to cope with the rising cost of living and has made the donation to support the charity.<\/p>\n<p>Louisa Gardner, administration assistant at RWO, who arranged the donation earlier this week, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAn Easter egg is taken for granted by so many families but not everyone can manage to supply their families with this treat. It\u2019s important to us at RWO that we give back and it\u2019s with pleasure that we have made this donation to the foodbank.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Leeds South and East Foodbank said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very grateful for the generous donation at this time of year. It\u2019s just something really nice, particularly for families with kids who are struggling \u2013 a tasty choccy treat always brightens the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post is based on a press release issued on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/rwo.group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RWO Group<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Louisa Gardner, administration assistant at RWO, who arranged the Easter egg donation the Leeds South and East Foodbank<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While you\u2019re here, can we ask a favour?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">South Leeds Life is published by a not-for-profit social enterprise. We keep our costs as low as possible but we\u2019ve been hit by increases in the print costs for our monthly newspaper which have doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Could you help support local community news by making a one off donation, or even better taking out a supporters subscription?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Donate here, or sign up for a subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A firm of Yorkshire engineers has made an egg-cellent donation to a Leeds food bank, helping to put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,12450,17445,393,4884,1860,17446,17447,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-29130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-charity","10":"tag-donation","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-leeds-south-and-east-foodbank","15":"tag-rwo","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114356682075425338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}