A woman who has devoted her life to helping others has shared what it's like to be responsible for helping so many families in her Nottinghamshire town. Ginnette Hardy, 53, of Newark, has been helping others her whole life and but has been actively volunteering for a range of causes since the 1980s, including domestic violence, homelessness, housing and bereavement.
In March 2022 Ginnette set up the Newark Food & Well-being Hub which now helps around 80 families each week by selling bags of food valued at £10-£12 for £3.50. Ginnette explained that it was her husband who encouraged her to be more active in the community, saying: "I have volunteered on and off for the district council since 1988 when I was in homes accommodation.
"Then I met my husband and he got me into doing more volunteering as he was St John Ambulance, and anything and everything he volunteered for and of course he dragged me into it. He took poorly and sadly died five years ago from cancer, so I sort of said I would carry on and this is my way of giving back.
