A home care company's Easter egg campaign saw hundreds of donations.

Home Instead South Lakes' ‘Be an Easter bunny to a someone’ initiative collected chocolate eggs to donate in the community, with 500 being donated in total; 300 from individuals and 200 from Kendal's Morrisons store.

The eggs were distributed with the help of the green watch team at Kendal Fire Station to community organisations including: Impact Housing Jenkins Crag and South Lakes Foyer; Sight Advice South Lakes; Targeted South Support; Councillor Michel Miles; Kendal Community Emergency Planning Group; the Kendal Integrated Care Community Team; Manna House; the Sandylands Association; Kendal People’s Café; the parish church; and Nutwood Medical Practice.

Rachel Sanders, recruitment and community engagement coordinator at Home Instead, said: “We launched the campaign as a follow-up to our Christmas gift-giving initiative, where a great deal of people donated gifts to local seniors.

"We have been overwhelmed with the turnout for our Easter campaign.

"So many eggs were donated, all of which have brought so many smiles to the faces of people throughout our community.

“We wanted to remind our community that we are still thinking about them as we come out of lockdown.

"We couldn’t be prouder of our community who donated in force.

"A huge thank you to everyone who donated.”

Kirsty Ireland, Morrisons' community champion, added: “It is such a wonderful campaign that our customers have been excited to get involved with.

"The pandemic is still having a huge impact on our society and it’s great to see our local community come together and help each other through these difficult times.”

Home Instead provides companionship-led care to elderly people across the South Lakes, with services ranging from home help and personal care to specialist dementia and post-discharge care.