Category Archives: Food

We had a glitch in our payment system – can you help us catch up?

Thanks so much if you tried to donate last time we sent this email and apologies if you had issues – our payment account and Buy me a Coffee account had a falling out! We are assured it is all … 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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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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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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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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Community Pantry and cafe report for today!

Community cafe and pantry are so busy today! There was still time for volunteer Sarah (who is a professional contortionist, don’t try this at home kids) to do some cat balancing with Greebo. A couple of pantry users in first … Continue reading

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Yes, we have some bananas

Yes, we have some bananas, we have some bananas today 🎶 Our local co-op had quite a few bananas wot had gone squishy, which they passed to us. The bananas were over ripe and not ok to go in the … Continue reading

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Cake Island – will the casters hold up?!

Cake Island is filled ready for our community cafe events this week, vegan sweet and savoury treats including banana muffins, colourful cupcakes, gluten free ‘cheeze’cake, gluten free choc orange brownies, chocolate crunch, pineapple upside down cake, lemon cake, ‘cheeze’ and … Continue reading

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