Shopping on a budget to help local foodbanks was challenge set for St Stephen's Burnley Scout Troop

Keen to make a positive impact on the community, and very much aware of the cost of living crisis, St Stephen’s Scout group went shopping in Burnley’s Aldi store to donate food and other items to local foodbanks.

Each patrol was given £20 to spend and the challenge to buy something beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

Scout leader Stephanie Howard said: “ It was great to see them using real life skills of budgeting whilst shopping and working together to make sure they had as much as possible and for them to understand that if people are struggling to feed themselves they will also struggle to buy toiletries, pet food and nappies.”

The group, which meets at St Stephen’s School in Woodgrove Road, is now looking at other fundraising ideas so then can do the foodbank shop again.