The residents of Blossom Gate Drive, Daisy Place and Honeysuckle Close in the West Heath area of Congleton have completed another collection for their local food bank.

The organiser of the collection has also earned an unexpected tribute from a non-league football club chairman who lives 108 miles from the town, following a stunning knock-on effect from West Heath's first effort.

This has led to hundreds of car loads of food being donated to food banks in a Midlands city.

The three Congleton streets have a communal Facebook page under "Residents of Blossom Gate" and their initial appeal focused on collecting tins and packets of food from their drives following a "Clap for Carers" evening during the early stages of the pandemic.

The organiser of both the Facebook page and food collections is Becky English-Williams, at that time in the final weeks of pregnancy.

Now, despite all the hard work and sleepless nights involved in Becky and husband David looking after two-month-old Isla, mum and dad have been at it again with a second charity effort in aid of The Storehouse at the New Life Church in West Road.

Football was involved in a different way this time with inspiration from England and Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford, MBE.

Marcus has called out the government over their decision not to extend free school meals to vulnerable children through half-term.

Becky said: "There was such a good response from our streets last time that I thought people would want to help again, this time with neighbours dropping off the food at our house.

"There was so much more of it second time around that The Storehouse is going to have to send a van round to pick it all up. We shall carry on making collections, but on an ad hoc basis because I appreciate not everybody can do it all of the time."

Among the residents on the Blossom Gate Facebook page is Congleton publicist Tim Taylor. One of his clients is the chairman of his home town football club, Worcester City's Steve Goode.

Tim said: "When Becky first started this, I passed on the idea to City (who incidentally I watched beat Liverpool in the FA Cup in 1959) and the chairman picked up the baton big time.

"I phoned Steve for a chat after this second effort in West Heath. He told me the football club and their contacts got such a massive momentum going in Worcester that - for four months - five wards in the city were collecting a total of 50 car loads of food every week."

Steve added: "Becky should be proud of her part in inspiring the city of Worcester to such a generous response.

"Only two of our wards are still doing it full-on but that is only because the food banks of Worcester cannot cope with any more. They have run out of storage space!"