Farepak families fund is launched

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I was totally shocked at the complete disregard of the Farpak company for any notion of decency but hopefully this is a bit of good news!

"A new fund is being set up to help the thousands of families affected by the collapse of the Farepak hamper firm.
The Minister for Consumer Affairs, Ian McCartney, said the Farepak Response Fund was being established with help from York-based charity Family Fund.

He said Tesco had pledged £250,000 and called on other firms to help.

Swindon-based Farepak ran a savings scheme for 150,000 people for vouchers and Christmas hampers, but collapsed in October without offering compensation.

In another development, Sainsbury's has agreed that Farepak customers can get 25% of the value of their savings in Sainsbury's vouchers."

full story here

and thats how it should be missdee

i mean say you neededa new boiler

woudl you asy " oh no we will not have hot water as we need to get 12 cases of bacardi breezer"

like my central heating breaking down, there goes the xmas money nobody will be compensating me though!

apparently the food is crap and they charge you twice what you would in a supermarket

half of it you would never ever buy anyway

but i do understand people get the vouchers instead

adn no one omepnsates epoeple ho dabble in stocks adn shares
they are informed
i dont htink poverty is an excuse for ignroance
now THAT woudl be patronising

well i dotn understand, but i realise

It's all tims of spam and boxes of broken biscuits isn't it ?

oh i wouldnt get a hamper, or goods from them, just the vouchers. but then theother year there was problems with vouchers.

if my boiler broke down then all i do is call the council.

tins

missdde i rest my case

Everybody isn't as smart as you, cod.

ohyes ndp

tins of potatoes ???????

tins of mushrooms

boak

i am particularly dim at finances
but veen i woudlnt do that

smart as a carrot that cod.

lol@barcardi breezers, they are vile!

Fray Bentos pies

am i smart in the sense, that in 9years of celebrating xmas, i have cooked xmas dinner just the once?

misdee for savings remember i told you about credit unions

did you look into it

no
the counil did it for you?

going out for xmas dinner misdee is expensive

youd be smart to stay in i fyou were skint

well I've been saving a small amount with Park this year and I'm glad I did.

I feel really sorry for everyone who'll have a crap Xmas this year 'cos of farepak, poor buggers

Or have you been to family on xmas day, misdee ?

FWIW, I have never, ever cooked a Sunday roast or a Christmas dinner. That's DH's dept, although we go to BIL & SIL on Christmas day

but ndp oyu get spam out of your hamper non?

LOL!

lol, no we have had dinner at my sisters places and at MIL's, never paid for it.

not yet naily. i have a loan finishing after xmas so will get things sorted after then.

cod, when we did own our own place, we didnt have any heating for the 1st year. so we saved, used park vouchers, and got the CH put in just before dd1 arrived. hot water was heated by electric thingy.

i looked at those hampers once. just the once. and decided i didnt need 10 cans of corned beef, a fray bentos pie, 2 boxes of broken biscuits etc etc.

and OMG have you ever looked at the booze ones? how much do people drink? i assume people who get those have big xmas parties and lots of family.