OKEHAMPTON Foodbank is to open an extra weekly session to help people using the service more directly. The foodbank will run its additional session on Tuesday mornings from 10am to noon at Okehampton Baptist Church. The Friday session, which also runs from 10am to noon, will continue as normal. The Tuesday session will have an eight week trial period. At the sessions, volunteers give out food parcels to people struggling to put food on the table. Parcels are designed to provide a balanced mix of groceries. As a result of the extra session, the organisation is looking for more volunteers to help handle the extra work. The foodbank is particularly crying out for more volunteers to help put together food parcels in the storage room under OK Leisure, and to distribute parcels on a Tuesday and Friday. Dermot Searle, chairman of Okehampton Foodbank, said: 'As we are unable to effectively man the freephone every day we felt that this was a better way to provide a more effective service to those who find themselves in need. 'We are extremely grateful to the people, businesses, churches and organisations in Okehampton and further afield who support us in this vital work in our community with donations of both food and finance. 'We do however need people who are prepared to volunteer, whether in our warehouse and packing station, or to distribute parcels on a Tuesday or Friday.' Prospective volunteers can find out more by dropping into the baptist church from 10am to noon on a Tuesday or Friday, visiting the foodbank website http://www.okefood">www.okefood bank.org.uk or calling foodbank chairman Dermot Searle on 07854 579038 or e-mail [email protected]">[email protected] As well as appealing for help from volunteers, food and monetary donations are always welcome. Gifts of food can be delivered to Okehampton Baptist Church during the Tuesday and Friday sessions, or to OK Leisure on Fore Street during shop opening hours. Foodstuffs ideal for donation include tinned goods, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, corned beef, pasta and pasta sauce. Any cheques for monetary donations should be made payable to 'Okehampton Baptist Church — Foodbank'. Okehampton Foodbank is there to help anyone in genuine need. If you need the foodbank's help, visit the Baptist Church on a Friday between 10am and noon, or call the emergency freephone on 0800 978 8563.