02/10/2026
💚 PROJECT UPDATE – KIND KITCHEN COMMUNITY FRIDGE 💚
September brought us a few delays with our Kind Kitchen Community Fridge — unfortunately, a few things were completely outside of our control! But behind the scenes we’ve been working away, and we’re delighted to say things are really starting to come together. 🙌
🎨 Our Kind Kitchen space has been freshly repainted, with our new mural due to start next week.
❄️ Our brand-new community fridge has arrived and is now waiting to be wired in and ready for action!
🥫 We also received a lovely donation from Robert at Tesco - Newtownbreda Extra to help us get started. As anyone involved in food redistribution knows, donations can vary hugely from week to week, so support like this really helps us build up a good starting stock.
⚽ We’re also delighted to announce that Newtownbreda Football Club will be hosting a collection for Kind Kitchen in the coming weeks! A massive thank you to the club for getting behind the project and supporting their local community. 💚
🌱 And we’re growing something else too!
Alongside Kind Kitchen, we’re getting ready to soft launch our new Plot to Plate gardening project.
The idea is simple — grow it locally, harvest it locally and share it locally. 🥕🥬
Working with local residents and groups, we’ll begin growing our own fruit, vegetables and herbs, with produce making its way straight into the Kind Kitchen Community Fridge for everyone to share.
It’s another step towards making Kind Kitchen more sustainable, while bringing people together to learn new skills, get their hands dirty and see exactly where their food comes from. 🌱💚
But Kind Kitchen has always been about more than simply putting a fridge in a room.
Through our project funding, we’ve also been able to build capacity within our community, providing accredited training for staff, volunteers, volunteers from other local groups and members of our community.
Participants have completed:
🩹 Emergency First Aid at Work
🍽️ Level 2 Food Safety in Catering
These are practical, recognised skills that people can use every day — whether that’s supporting their community, volunteering or helping them move towards employment.
It’s been a VERY busy September, and although things haven’t moved quite as quickly as we originally hoped, a huge amount has been happening behind the scenes.
We’re now working towards our October launch 🎉 and we can’t wait to show you the finished Kind Kitchen space and see the project begin to grow — quite literally! 🌱😂
💚 Good food. Shared with kindness.
Belfast City Council