HOPING Street Kitchen and Hickory’s help homeless at Easter

Customers and staff at Hickory’s Smokehouse, in Shipton Road, donated Easter eggs to be distributed by HOPING Street Kitchen in King’s Manor Garden on Easter Sunday (April 5).

Easter character Hetty Hen even joined staff at the street kitchen, which services hot meals to around 120 people in need each week, to spread festive cheer.

The Hickory’s team with the donated Easter eggs for homeless people in York (Image: Supplied)

Hayden Broadbent, Hickory’s community manager, brought a car full of the donated Easter eggs and said: “Everyone’s on board with the need to help those struggling and Easter is a special time for spreading hope and having a bit of fun together. We wish everyone a very happy Easter!”

Hetty Hen said the street kitchen’s Easter menu, as well as the donated Easter eggs, “hit the spot”.

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Helen Meadows, HOPING’s chair of trustees, said the team was “thrilled” to have Hayden at the Easter Sunday service. “Hayden and the Hickory’s Smokehouse team are such cheerful positive people who always do their best for us. They keep our team hopeful too.  We really can’t thank them enough.”

Helen thanked the “kind folk” for their donated chocolate eggs which she said ensured “everyone in our community got to celebrate Easter properly”. 

She added that “world events are tightening belts further”, meaning the street kitchen is “bracing ourselves for a further spike in homelessness with cost-of-living rises”.

To support HOPING Street Kitchen, visit its JustGiving Page titled: “HOPING York Street Kitchen.”