FOOD and festival tickets are among the help being provided for former PoleStar employees by the people of Chagford.

Shown here loading food for the Okehampton Foodbank are Si Ford, Graham and Mary Flight of the Globe Inn, and Nat Newton.?The food was donated by the people of Chagford.

Si Ford, the founder of Chagstock, has also donated £2,000 worth of day tickets for the forthcoming Chagstock 2011 event so that former employees can look forward to a fun day out. The three-day Chagstock 2011 music and arts festival runs from July 22 to July 24 2011.

He said: 'Food is the essential thing these people need right now, but hopefully the tickets will give them something to look forward to in the long run.'