Luton soup kitchen serves 120 meals in underneath 20 minutes | EUROtoday

A soup kitchen has handed out 120 meals parcels in underneath 20 minutes.

Luton Sikh Soup Kitchen, a daily fixture outsidethe city corridor on Sunday evenings, has served 30,000 scorching meals since its launch.

Volunteer Gurch Randhawa, stated: “It shows you, sadly, how the cost of living crisis is affecting people.

“In the queue some persons are homeless, some in hostels, however really some have jobs however simply do not come up with the money for – and that queue was already going midway down the road earlier than six.”

He said the hardest part of the evening was packing up while people were still arriving and having to turn them away.

“That’s the problem that in these winter months that lots of people have not had a scorching meal all day and we’re their solely supply of a scorching meal on a Sunday,” Mr Randawa said.

Despite the challenges and whatever the weather, the team has never missed a Sunday.

Volunteer Sonia Bains said: “It’s our alternative to present again to the group. There’s such a necessity in Luton, and it is also a part of our faith to do selfless service. It feels so fulfilling.”

Lynn Bird, whose employer Thurlow Nunn has supported the cause by providing a van to transport supplies and equipment each week, said it was important “to assist and do one thing”.

“I’m a Lutonian, so realizing there’s so many homeless folks and you do not realise until you come down and see it first hand simply what number of are queuing up,” she stated.