Thanks to the amazing support of the RSPCA, we can now offer dog and cat food to people who visit the community fridge on a Thursday – so please feel free to mention if you have a pet that you’re struggling to feed. We also have our toy-box for little children, so if you’re collecting… Continue reading Community Fridge new offerings …
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Weald Community Fridge success story
Before we get into some good news – would anybody like these lovely house-shaped shelves, donated by one of Weald’s fantastic volunteers last year? They’ve been a valuable part of our work, but our new stainless steel shelving is about to arrive and we need a new home for the white ones. The wooden ones… Continue reading Weald Community Fridge success story
Weald welcomes …
Welcome to all the new volunteers this month! Jo and Theo have joined us as Foragers, collecting food from the supermarkets on Wednesday evening, Jedda is one of our Sunday driving team and Rosamund has come on board as a Thursday Fridge Hero. Weald also welcomes your amazing food donations! The people who collect food… Continue reading Weald welcomes …
Weald community fridge – 2020
It’s a good time to look back on our successes. We’ve had an amazing partnership with Tesco, Coop and Waitrose, who’ve supplied us with surplus food throughout the year. In addition, we were a Waitrose local charity in December, and were given a cheque for £330 to help fund our work in future. Since March… Continue reading Weald community fridge – 2020
Soup Sunday cancelled …
Sadly, as we’re now in Tier 4, there will be no Soup Sunday in January. We’ll keep reviewing government guidelines but at present we don’t think it’s wise to encourage people to come out when the advice is to stay home. However our Community Fridge is still open every Thursday and we’re making deliveries to… Continue reading Soup Sunday cancelled …
Please help Weald grow …
We’re delighted to say we’ve been given funding to help develop some courses for our amazing new Weald kitchen. They will initially focus on cooking and preserving food and to find out what would be most useful to you, our users, we’ve put together a little survey – please complete it to help us organise… Continue reading Please help Weald grow …
Hungry at Christmas – how you can help
There has been an increase in people accessing emergency food provisions across Brighton and Hove, exacerbated by Covid-19. At the peak of the previous lockdown 3001 emergency food parcels and 3966 meals were distributed a week. Recent research shows that some families had just £8.53 per person a week food budget. Imagine trying to feed… Continue reading Hungry at Christmas – how you can help
Weald gets safer …
As we head into the next lockdown, we’ve been reconsidering how we can keep our community fridge and food deliveries going and keep our volunteers safe. This will definitely help! Courtesy of the Sussex Police Safety fund, we’ve not only be able to purchase aprons and more masks and gloves, but also wonderful high visibility… Continue reading Weald gets safer …
Weald’s first Soup Sunday
Despite the weather, we had a wonderful time! Nakao and Yayoi spent hours making miso soup and rice balls. Our purple gazebo made a wonderful and COVID-19 safe way of serving food. We had a socially distanced queue, and fortunately it didn’t rain while we were serving soup. And many happy soup eaters! We also… Continue reading Weald’s first Soup Sunday
Reminder – Soup Sunday tomorrow!
Come along at 13:00 until the soup runs out – bring a mug and observe social distancing. Tomorrow we have a wonderful vegetarian miso soup and rice balls … suggested donation 50 pence, free to all over 65s. You can find us at Weald Allotments, Weald Avenue, Hove.
Weald Allotments, Hove 