30/01/2026
2025 was a year of food justice, community power, and shared skills.
🥕Food Access, Dignity, and Fighting Food Waste
In 2025, we distributed 30+ tonnes of fresh fruit, vegetables, halal food, and household essentials to 547 households.
We also rescued 24 tonnes of food from landfill, turning surplus into support for better nutrition, health, and well-being across our community.
🍽️ Community Meals
We delivered 10 Community Meals, serving 1,300 people in total.
With the support of 30 volunteers and 5 partner organisations, we prepared 450 portions across 9 cultural gatherings, and 850 portions at 1 large community meal.
🥘 Ready Meals with The Hidden Kitchen
We ran 32 meal prep sessions in partnership with the Hidden Gardens. Over 1,600 ready meals were produced in total, which served 50+ pantry members weekly.
25+ volunteers played a key role in saving 300kg of food from landfill. They enjoyed learning cooking skills while building community connections.
🍓 The People's Preserves
We rescued 240kg of surplus fruit and vegetables from landfill, and preserved them in 750+ jars of jams and pickles.
25 volunteers learned more about new recipes, seasonality, and food waste reduction.
🍄 Community Champignons
31 local men worked cooperatively and learned about mushroom cultivation and locally sourced food production.
100+ kg of oyster mushrooms were distributed through The People's Pantry, 50 mushroom grow kits were sold to share skills and sustain the project.
🌱 Carfin Street Gardening
43 raised beds were nurtured along Carfin Street by the neighbours, who shared their learnings around seed sowing, composting, soil health, and seasonal growing. The harvested herbs, potatoes, and beetroots were fed back into community meals, preserves, and the Pantry's shelves.
🧵 Workshops with Rags to Riches (R2R)
Alongside food support, we delivered creative workshops making hot water bottle covers and draught excluders.
96 attendees built skills, confidence, and social connection.
Thank you to every volunteer, neighbour, and partner who made it possible.
