A COMMUNITY group is encouraging more people to get involved with a project to donate unused clothes to a charity.

BCP Bring Community Power is planning to donate clothes and tinned food to Hope for Food, which helps people living in poverty.

The group is aiming to improve the area through projects that everyone can get involved in.

It organised a cleanup of Churchill Gardens in Boscombe, and a townwide spring clean in April.

Simone Ippolito, group organiser, said: “We have decided to do a new project that is going to be nice and simple for everybody with all sorts of problems, or if we make excuses to be able to participate.

“There will be a community project around collecting clothes, toys that obviously we can give a second life to, and also tins of food to all bring to Hope for Food.

“I want this to be excuse proof. So, you’ve all got time to go through your wardrobe and collect your clothes that you're not using anymore.

“You’ve all got time to go through your toys that you're not using anymore and collect them.

“If you're not able to bring them to Hope for Food on the 29th, bring them to one other person in the group and we'll be able to sort it out.”

He added: “If you want to go the extra miles, ten tins of food, which will cost you four pounds, that will do a lot of good for people in need in our community.

“This is what community is about, it’s about helping the less fortunate, it’s about working together towards making life better for everybody, not just for the ones that are involved in the actual community group, and it's about togetherness.

“I think this project will bring a lot of people together.”

Simone hopes the project will help give the group momentum, saying everyone needs to ‘chip in’.

He added: “We need people with energy, enthusiasm and willpower to make positive change happen.”