OVERWHELMING amounts of donations for people in Ukraine has led to Bournemouth’s biggest shopping centre offering up a warehouse to kind-hearted volunteers.
It comes just days after organisers from a newly formed group - Help from Bournemouth to Ukraine - set up an appeal for donations.
Yesterday the group, who have been organising donations across Dorset, had to halt collections at their main centre while the warehouse at Castlepoint was secured.Castlepoint management has given the group the use of the old Argos warehouse and shop as a drop-off point and storage facility for all donations.
People with donations can drop them off in the main Argos store - through the blue doors - on the top level of Castlepoint between 9am and 5pm daily.
Karol Swiacki, organiser of Help from Bournemouth to Ukraine, said: “They will give us almost everything, boxes, trolleys - it’s just fantastic.
“They will also support our action with their 20,000 customers - that’s out of this world.”
Thousands of donations have been pouring in from Dorset residents to help people affected by the war in Ukraine.
Daniel Sulimierski, owner of Food Plus - the main collection point in Boscombe, said:
“They are our neighbours we need to help.
“And it’s overwhelming, we didn’t expect this much.”
The group already has three warehouses full of donations and two lorries in Southampton ready to go to Poland.