WINCHESTER Basics food bank is staging collections at a city supermarket.

The emergency food charity will be at Waitrose in Weeke on Saturday March 29 from 9am to 6pm.

On Sunday March 30 it will be there from 10am to 4pm.

Shopping lists will be handed out to customers and food donations collected by a team made up of Basics volunteers and Waitrose staff.

Basics is based in Highcliffe and is increasingly busy as the numbers of people in financial difficulty continues to grow.