Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost has provided £615 of match funding
P Daddys Pop Up Kitchen CIC
Wellington, Somerset, United Kingdom
Aim
P Daddy’s Pop up Kitchen CIC is keen to make a major contribution to addressing issues of food insecurity our local community.
Who are we?
We are a Community Interest Company that is community led and staffed by wonderful volunteers.
We are looking or finding to help with the costs of our “Food Resilience Challenge “to make sure that no body goes hungry in our community.
We serve the community in Wellington Somerset and surrounding areas we work in a wholistic manner with the families and individuals in our community.
We have for almost 4 years been providing a taste of food from around the world sourced locally from Wellington Somerset as a means of bringing the community together and contributing to community cohesion.
We also regularly donate food adults Key workers and the Isolated elderly in our community. We have been doing this on a regular basis since the emergence of COVID -19 to date.
At the present time we have seen a significant increase in demand for our services as we work with families facing the Cost of Living Crisis and other vulnerable members of our community.
P Daddy’s Pop up Kitchen CIC is keen to make a major contribution to addressing issues of food poverty and food waste by redistributing surplus food from the local supermarkets to local families in need. Free of charge to the families we work with.
One of the ways we will do this is by launching a pop up kitchen where we will facilitate family cooking sessions for the families we work with this will involve sharing healthy cooking ideas and cooking on a budget.
All the ingredients will be free of charge to the families and will be sourced from the surplus food we collect from the supermarkets. it is important that we include the whole family in these sessions so the children can be involved in the cooking process at the end of session we can all enjoy a home cooked meal together.
Over the 4 years of our existence, We have established very strong links with our local supermarkets and local community who donate surplus food to us, the local community who donate to our foodbox placed in a local business where local people are able to donate their own surplus food, this is then distributed to families in need in our area.
We are able to provide the families we work with with enough food to last them whilst they are being referred to other providers is the area.
We are determined to do our bit to reduce food waste in the in our community , while at the same time ensuring that surplus food goes to the people who need it the most.
We work closely with our suppliers( local supermarkets and the local community) to encourage and help them to donate their surplus food safely and effectively, which we then redistribute to our network of members, via our food hubs and partners.
To date we have over 150 families on our database in wellington and the surrounding areas.
Our exciting range of fundraising gifts, also sold via our Wellington Produce Market are helping us to counter the financial challenges capable of meeting the increased demand for our services.
With your support we will be able to scale up our response to the Cost of Living Crisis and bring people together through food in our communities this winter and beyond.
We have in the years of our existence worked very hard to establish strong working partnerships with our local supermarkets we are signed up members of fare share and we have established a community food box with a local business where members of the community can donate their surplus food, this food is then distributed straight to the community via self referrals, school referring families they know are struggling, we provide them with advice and a reliable service to redistribute their surpluses saving them money, time and resources in the process.
With this a funding we hope to deliver up to a number cookery workshops in community centres & faith spaces providing further meals and essential skills to those most in need.
We will also continue to cook and distribute meals to the communities we continue to work with.
What you get for your donation......
The target amount will provide 2000 Food Parcels for those in need in our community this year through our pay it forward scheme :
"Pay it Forward to feed a Family in Need":
£ 5 - A Food Resilience Challenge Mug.
£10 - A Food Resilience Challenge T- Shirt.
£ 25 – A food parcel to include a meat pack with local Vegetables and nutritional home-cooked meals & essentials (to Pay forward to a Family or elderly couple in need for one week).
£ 50 – A Food parcel to include a meat pack with nutritional vegetables and nutrional homecooked meals & essentials (to Pay forward to a Family in need or elderly couple for two weeks).
£ 100 – A Family Hamper to include allthe neccesties: feeds a Family of 4 or 2 or elderly couple ( Pay forward to a family in need or older people at Christmas)
If you are a local business that would like to contribute to this challenge or offer your help and support please do call us on 07421389597. Any help you can offer is welcome.
We would like to whole heartedly thank all those that have donated so far, the local businesses and the local community.
This project successfully funded on 6th March 2023