A HUGE donation of essential groceries, clothes and bedding has been collected by health staff for a charity which supports the homeless.

Staff from Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) helped collect the items for Nightsafe.

The charity supports homeless and vulnerable people aged 16-24 years old across the borough.

They were handed over by CCG chairman Graham Burgess and administration apprentice Ashleigh Davies.

Mr Burgess said: “I’m always astonished at how generous people can be, but everyone at the CCG was eager to help.

"Nightsafe does amazing work to support those young people who don’t have a permanent home to get them off the streets and turn their life around.”

Ms Davies, who recently took part in the mass sleep-out in the town centre, aimed at raising more awareness of homelessness, said: “I have collected over 30 bags of clothes, duvets and blow up beds which I have donated to Nightsafe to help. Most of the stuff is second hand but its clean and more importantly it is warm.”