The COVID-19 pandemic presented a serious threat to life in our community and an unprecedented challenge to delivery, necessitating a shift in our area of delivery. With schools closed and many vulnerable people in our community at risk, Legacy WM sought to ameliorate some of the worst knock-on effects. We distributed activity packs for young people and carried out doorstep deliveries of hot meals from a catering kitchen. We also sought to highlight some of the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on diverse communities, many of whom work in frontline roles or saw their livelihoods disrupted. The pandemic cast our social mission in stark relief and made clear the difference we can make in our communities to wellbeing. In the following years as incidence rates and lethality have dropped, we have made concerted efforts on social reintegration, engagement and wellbeing in the local area.
