A KIND HEARTED member of staff from Bournemouth Libraries is giving up her personal collection of signed books and plants for a good cause.

Medi Bernard, Service and Strategy Manager, decided to she wanted to do more to encourage people to give donations to the Food Banks in Bournemouth, as she had heard how over-subscribed they have been.

She said: “The Kinson Library was already a collection point for donations to the food banks, but I thought it made sense to allow all Bournemouth Libraries to collect them.”

She added: “I wanted to give people an incentive to donate. I came to work in Bournemouth in December 2000 and so I’ve built up a collection of signed books over the years, so I thought that maybe I could offer those, some of my spider plants and some book tokens.

“So anyone who brings in a non-perishable food item can enter and we do the draw in the first or second week of every month and we have a different person to come along and pick the winner.”

For more information on the initiative and to enter the draw, visit your local Bournemouth library.