Who are we ?
The Antwerp Arms in Tottenham is North London’s first community owned pub. Affectionately known as the Annie, the community pub venture was started by the collective efforts of a group of local people. The Annie is now owned by over 460 shareholders and is a friendly and welcoming community hub. Local people from our diverse communities gather to meet, hold events and socialise with quality drinks and good food.
What do we do ?
We run a Community Lunch club and have prepared and given away hot, freshly prepared free meals every Tuesday since 2016. Since we delivered hot meals and care packages to the community during COVID lockdown, we now deliver hot meals in addition to serving them in the pub on Tuesdays.
We also cook and serve up free Christmas lunches for vulnerable and disadvantaged people. Last year we crowdfunded for food vouchers for families in need during the festive period. We want to do this again to reach more people in need.
Volunteer Led
We have achieved all this with our wonderful team of over 40 volunteers who get Health & Safety, cookery, food preparation and hospitality training. We work with other charities like Fare Share, Accenture and the Felix Project. We have previously received support and funding from Peoples Health Trust, Haringey Giving, Near Neighbours and the National Lottery Community Fund. Our generous supporters who visit the pub to see NFL and Spurs matches also contribute towards our community lunches and food vouchers.
This Year’s Appeal
We will be working in conjunction with the Premier League Fans Fund to fundraise for our festive community meals and shopping vouchers for schools.
What will we spend the money on ?
The cost of living crisis continues to affect the most vulnerable in our community. We want to provide food vouchers for local families in partnership with nine schools across N17.
Funds from last year's festive appeal contributed towards £1500 in vouchers for pupils of nine local schools prior to Christmas We also fed 300 people in the pub during the festive period.