VIDEO: Volunteers in Cwmbran packed around 300 bags of unused supermarket food on Christmas Eve for families across Torfaen

Volunteers in Cwmbran made sure that when supermarkets closed on Christmas Eve any unused food went to a good home.

They were volunteering on behalf of Tasty Not Wasty, based in Llanyrafon Methodist Church. I popped along to watch the operation in action.

a woman packs a food parcel — Around 300 families stopped food going to waste on Christmas Eve thanks to the volunteers

About a dozen vans were mobilised to visit supermarkets all over Torfaen and even one in Newport. Shop staff had filled rolleys of items they knew would be out-of-date by the time they reopened after Christmas. The donations were brought back to Llanyrafon where about 40 people organised each item into bags.

Then the vans drove out to pick-up points where people who had been referred from or had self-referred themselves popped along to get their free food.

VIDEO: Watch volunteers packing the bags

VIDEO- A collection from Aldi in Cwmbran

a church hall full of cardboard boxes — The hall at Llanyrafon Methodist Church packed full of cardboard boxes of food items

three people stood by a transit van — Volunteers from Tasty Not Waste at a supermarket on Christma Eva ready to load up with donations

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