Feeding Gainsborough has been hard at work these last couple of months, with new plans on the way to be bigger than before. But we haven’t taken our attention off what’s most important. You. Our services still run consistently, and we’d like to enlighten everyone on just how much we’ve done far this year up to February. In monthly payments,…
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Feeding Gainsborough’s winter period has been a busy one to say the least. Between our Christmas and new years eve food shout, we provided food to over 350 individuals and their families out of surplus foods, we’re still counting everywhere else our food goes! This year has been a giant step up for Feeding Gainsborough. From new ideas, groups, and…
Feeding Gainsborough’s warehouse has recently undergone criminal damage due to an attempted break in. Though we are doing our best to continue providing our services, adjustments have been made to ensure the safety of our service users and volunteers, including locations of our food tables which can be found on our Facebook page. Until these damages have been attended to,…
After our soft launch last week, we are very excited to announce the launch of On The Square Surplus Café! A huge thank you to the National Lottery Community Fund for funding our project and supporting us through the development. On the Square is a friendly, community takeaway open to all to come and enjoy. We use surplus food…
Thank you to all the children at Gainsborough Nursery School for their amazing drawings and paintings they’ve done for our volunteers. It absolutely made their day receiving them and we really appreciated it. We continue to support Gainsborough Nursery School with their mini pantry which is accessible to all parents and guardians to collect from every day – not only…
Thank you so much to all at Surplus Food for Good for our amazing collections of surplus food in the past few months. We are so grateful for everything we have received, and our team have been able to distribute this to many within our community. We collected from events in Nottingham, Warwickshire and Birmingham and came away with an…
Local community group, Feeding Gainsborough, is celebrating after being awarded National Lottery funding to support its work in addressing poverty, poor health, and social isolation. The group, based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire will use the cash to distribute surplus food, provide information, advice and guidance through specialist partner sessions and support groups and create volunteering opportunities including training and entry to…
We have always recognised that school holidays can place a huge strain on household budgets and this situation has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In support of our local community and in partnership with BBC Children in Need, we will be offering free meals for families on Thursday 8th and Thursday 15th April 2021. MENU 08/04/2021 Free freshly cooked meals…
On Thursday 11th February, we were visited by ITV Calendar News so they could have an insight into the day to day work we do at Feeding Gainsborough. Their team followed us round our morning and evening supermarket food collections to see where some of our food comes from and also the long hours, we put in to our…
Believe me PIP applications can sometimes take up to 3 years! Our Feeding Gainsborough Support Team assisted a young lady who finally won her case in the court this week against DWP. This young lady was diagnosed with autism when she was very young and was in receipt of the higher rate DLA as a child. When she turned…