The ARC Centre was a thriving community hub until Covid-19 struck and the doors were shut two weeks before lockdown in March 2020. Thankfully, however, the charity’s creative director Damien Brown had the idea of turning the centre into a food bank – at a time when people were hoarding food and other food banks were closing.
Now, of course, Covid lockdowns are an increasingly distant memory and The ARC Centre’s doors are open again – but so too is the food bank, which continues to supply 100 households a week with food parcels to help local people through the cost of living crisis.