A BREWERY teamed up with Dorset Council over the Easter weekend to show support for the county’s NHS workers.

Hall & Woodhouse helped make deliveries of free homemade pub favourites to five community hospitals and three local hubs across the county as a special thank you for NHS staff working over the bank holiday weekend.

243 meals were made and delivered to Dorset HealthCare staff working at Shaftesbury’s Westminster Memorial Hospital, St Leonards Community Hospital, Wareham Community Hospital, Weymouth’s Community, Westhaven Hospital and community hubs in Purbeck, Dorchester and East Dorset.

Dorset Council portfolio holder for Adult Social Care and Health, Cllr Laura Miller said: “When we realised that some people working over the bank holiday might be missing out on a hot meal we wanted to put something in place and show our support.

“We are really grateful to Hall & Woodhouse for the generosity and flexibility they have shown as part of this joint initiative - by all accounts their deliveries were really well received.”

Anthony Woodhouse, Chairman of Hall & Woodhouse, said: “Our teams live and breathe our purpose of making people’s day and serving our communities. With all our pubs temporarily shut, you can imagine how pleased the teams at the Olive Branch, Wimborne, and the Duchess of Cornwall, Poundbury, were to be given the opportunity to provide meals for the fabulous NHS staff in a number of Dorset hospitals over the Easter weekend.”