Doctors, nurses and other heath care professionals at Concord Medical Centre in Little Stoke have been treated to an egg-stra special Easter delivery from Metro Mayor Dan Norris.
The Mayor dropped off a donation of chocolate Easter eggs to our NHS heroes to be distributed across the practice with thanks to sponsorship from Mission Street, Business West and Wessex Water.
It is all part of Dan Norris’s campaign to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the chocolate Easter Egg which was first made in the West of England.
150 years ago this Easter, the inventive people at Fry’s factory in Bristol made the world’s first commercial hollow chocolate Easter egg.
Mr Norris said: “I love it when something local to our area goes global so as we celebrate Easter this year I want everyone to know the chocolate Easter egg is something first hatched in our amazing region.
Chocolate has brought more pleasure to the world even than the Beatles so I think this is one to be egg-xtra proud of.
We all appreciate our NHS workers – their heroic efforts through Covid, one of the hardest winters we’ve seen, and at the same time dealing with their own cost of living worries. That’s why I’m really pleased that as part of our 150 egg giveaway we can celebrate and thank some local NHS staff.”
As well as the 150 egg giveaway, as part of the Mayor’s campaign celebrating the chocolate egg’s 150th birthday, all primary school pupils have received a booklet about the history of the Easter egg, youngsters are taking part in an Easter poetry competition, and residents are being “egged on” to support local foodbanks.