Ashcroft’s Red Cross loan cupboard is there to help - The Ashcroft

Ashcroft’s Red Cross loan cupboard is there to help - The Ashcroft

Its official name is the Canadian Red Cross Health Equipment Loan Program (HELP), but for more than 50 years it’s been known in the Ashcroft-Cache Creek area as the Red Cross Loan Cupboard. It was started in Cache Creek by the late Barb Shaw, and for the first half of its existence the local loan cupboard operated out of a space in the basement of the Cache Creek Community Hall. When the village decided to renovate the hall basement, the service…