Category Archives: Community news & views

It may all be relative, but facts are facts.

I was just listening to some old recordings of some lectures on relativity, like you do, and realising the reason it can be hard to understand this fairly simple idea, is that it isn’t common sense. It’s ALL about frames … Continue reading

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Help us to rescue food from the bin!

Every week, we collect surplus food from a local food waste charity and local co-ops for our community pantry and redistribute the food. We love taking perfectly good, nutritious food that would become waste and sharing it, or making it … Continue reading

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Summer Fundraiser – targets three, smaller this time!

Here’s the latest update on the🌟 Summer Fundraiser for the Community Pantry 🌟 In June, we reached our first and biggest target of £2500 to cover the additional cost of opening an indoor pantry through June, July and August when our … Continue reading

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A day in the life of our community pantry and cafe

Jani here – reporting on Saturday’s community pantry. Busy day today on paid forward soups and hot drinks and a few paying regulars in as well. We ran a shorter one today as it was just me and Zigz, Gill … Continue reading

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Can you help us keep the lights on?

Thanks so much for helping us reach our first target of £2500 to cover the costs of opening our indoor pantry during the summer! Your generosity means that the extra cost of opening indoors, offering a cafe space, is covered … Continue reading

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GIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Charlie Smith presents a singer-songwriter night

Featuring: Charlie Smith Simon Maggs D’Kenzion The Merricats Tickets are here Singer-Songwriter Night comes to The Art House on the 29th of July. Featuring local talent from around Southampton. After the success of ‘Alternative Acoustic Night at The Art House’, … Continue reading

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A Southampton Summer Night – tonight!

Join us tonight for a Southampton Summer Night at Turner Sims, University of Southampton Highfield Campus. With Spitdust, Babsie Brown and the Miniature Orchestra, Pip Summers and the Wandering Waterbears and DJ Hubert Carpet & introducing Albert de Lyon. The … Continue reading

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Summer Fundraiser – £1270 raised with 2 days to go!

As the 30 June approaches, we are more than halfway to our first and biggest summer fundraising target of £2500 to keep our indoor pantry open for July and August. We’ve had lots of lovely donations so far- thank you … Continue reading

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Summer Fundraiser – £1635 to go before the end of June! Here’s how you can help

As the end of June approaches, along with the usual slew of end-of-month bills (and the next quarter’s rent is due next week, too – which is a fair chunk of cashola), we’re appealing to our community to help us … Continue reading

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Tales of the Pantry – A rich life that took a turn

One thing about running our pantry is that many users want, for a host of reasons, to stay anonymous. This can make it hard to share their stories with you, our supporters, to show just what a difference the project … Continue reading

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