Bank On Mat

Peter steps up to the plate

- Gareth Walker

Peter Mata’utia knows how people feel when they step into a food bank or soup kitchen.

The Castleford Tigers centre grew up in Sydney in a family that needed help from its local community with domestic violence a damaging issue at home.

The 30-year-old has never forgotten what he went through and until Covid-19 restrictions temporarily prevented him, would volunteer at Pontefract Food Bank and Street Kitchen every week.

Mata’utia said: “I grew up with domestic violence in the house and we were always in homes and food banks.