TEENAGE volunteers will next week collect much-needed toiletries and kitchen items for people in need.

Young people from the National Citizens Service (NCS) will be at Keighley’s ASDA supermarket to ask shoppers to buy the items in the store and donate them.

The NCS team will give the goods to the Living Light charity which supports people living in poverty, the homeless, and victims of domestic abuse.

The volunteers will be at Asda supermarket in Keighley on Tuesday, August 20 between 11.30am and 3.30pm.

The NCS volunteers, known as Team Emeke (A Wave 9 NCS) are spending a month together at the Sangat Centre, Eastwood, for training, personal development and charity activities.

One of the NCS volunteers said: “Any small donation could make a huge difference to those in need, so please head down to ASDA on Tuesday to support your community.

“We will be handing the public a shopping list of items that the charity Living Lights have said they need urgently to donate to the people they help.

“The items requested range from toiletries and kitchen equipment and cost from 20p to £50.

“We will ask the public to buy these items during their shop and donate them at the end. As a thank you, the public will receive a free raffle entry to win prizes donated by ASDA.

“Living Lights, the charity we are supporting, help people in crisis, poverty and domestic abuse and we will supply them with the goods we collect from the public on the day. They also receive food collected in the foodbank already in ASDA.

“Please come along on the day to visit the group and donate goods to our charity!”