Category Archives: Food

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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