Gill here on Friday May 24th. Before even arriving at BitC I had pantry users approaching to ask if we open today . Today we had a warm colour theme going on, big juicy oranges, bright red beef steak tomatoes, shiny red apples and beautiful brown eggs. Very little bread but lots of croissants, with cakes and shortbread to accompany plus potato, onion and coconut soup. A big thankyou to our collection pixies and The Big Difference and Co-op Ocean Village!

Every drop of soup was served: thankyou Ziggy for warming and serving and Nicola for creating such beautiful soup.

At noon all our tables were occupied by folks enjoying their hot drinks and soups!

Thankyou to the person who donated some craft soaps, these were particularly popular! We had some major soap sniffing going on as folk decided which was their favourite. Lots of tampons went too! Donations of toiletries would be extremely useful as we have very few! In warmer weather our folk really appreciate wipes and deoderants. We have no toothbrushes, toothpastes or other basics other than tampons at present!

So who was in today? Some of our folks who were regulars from Above Bar, we caught up on their news and how they are doing, more locals are becoming regulars too! We have young folk, older folk, some living in temporary accomodation, some rough sleepers. It’s really nice meeting so many folk and numbers doubled from the previous week! We hope very much to continue this trend!

A big thankyou to prospective new volunteers, e-mails will be coming your way tonight or tomorrow.

Watch this space, more to come soon. …thanks so much to our regular supporters who make this project possible!