Gill here ...Hi everyone!
After an unexpected break last week due to a bereavement & unavailability of volunteers to cover (more about that later), we made it back to run the Pantry at Board in the City CIC this week!
We sorely a missed a vital team member but today we had Jez and Bik as our pick up fairies, thankyou both of you!
With Ziggy, Sarah and myself on set up, serve and clear up and Nic and Ziggy on soup... Thank you Nic, Ziggy and Sarah. The soup today was butternut squash with spring onions and coconut!
Today we had a few who are becoming regulars at this location, a few of our old regulars and a few new faces - they were all so grateful for the help filling their food cupboards!
Fruit and veg were popular, breads, pastries and some yummy shortbread went well. All the fruit, veg and bread would have gone to waste if we hadn’t collected it - now it is in the hands of people who need it!
We had some storecupboard items, tins, soups, porridge sachets and the like, which were very popular! We could really use some donations of these! Thanks co-op in Ocean Village for these items from their donation basket.
With a vital crew member down, it has highlighted the fact we need more... if anyone would like to join us we need folk to join us. Maybe as collection pixies, set up, serve and clear up volunteers (not necessarily doing it all), someone with a car who can collect at sessions end (about 1:30pm) leftover food etc to deliver to other locations, also anyone who fancies helping us promote the pantry by leaflet drops, identifying local noticeboards etc.
If you're interested in weekly, monthly or occasional volunteering please do let us know!
A huge thankyou to everyone who has and continues to support us with donations, without you folk we'd not be able to do any of this!
Tomorrow we have a Saturday Social at October books, including a mini pantry. We hugely look forward to seeing folks join us from 3pm till 5 pm... please pop by! We'd love to see you!
