Hayle Community Food Cupboard and Food Share

27/08/2024

Please share this- I know how hard it can be as a working single parent, but with the state of things we have families with both parents working who can’t afford to live, so anything that can help support families is worth sharing.

https://www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/aldi-invites-cornwall-parents-to-apply-for-ps100-back-to-school-vouchers-716567?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1irISoSjwXG29J8PZXKHam1PvHTp4ofYpPjEnRTtq6RCH3t9kZvFFwRU0_aem_tRnxvUOM35a2fBZeopmdhA&ai=

The vouchers will directly benefit parents with back-to-school costs

22/02/2024

Asda announced earlier this month that it will be serving free porridge and hot drinks from it’s cafe’s as part of a new temporary initiative in partnership with Quaker.

All customers can pick up a free portion of porridge and a hot drink of tea, coffee or hot chocolate, between 7th Feb and 20th of March between 8am and 12pm from the Asda cafe.

This is in addition to other existing offers of reduced cost food or free hot drinks(Kids eat for £1, Community Cuppa initiative and the £1 Winter Warmer for the over 60’s) as a way to offer support in the colder months.

Full details of all four offers can be viewed in the link below.

Asda cafés to offer all customers free porridge and a hot drink

18/01/2024

Brrrr… Winter came to visit us this morning! Actual snow! Our volunteers continue to collect food waste and stock up the cupboards at Copperhouse and Foundry Square, no matter what the weather, so make sure you pop in to collect all the lovely food as you’re passing.

03/01/2024

Just want to say a HUGE thank you to the hardy Gleaners, from the Cornwall Gleaning Network, who have been out today in wintry cold and showers to gather cauliflowers for us and other food networks. All for free! They’re now in the cupboards.

They are all volunteers who do an amazing job in challenging conditions to save freshly grown local food from going to waste!

They such a fantastic job- join us in giving massive thanks to them.

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29/12/2023

We’ve lots of fresh food going into the food cupboards everyday- so please make sure you visit the cupboards and take something to carry it home in!

We are collecting food all over the weekend and will keep the cupboards stocked- particularly the Copperhouse cupboard outside Phillack Church Hall.

Keep an eye out for bigger collections when we will open up the hall again as necessary!
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24/12/2023

We’ve had another fabulous delivery! So come on down and help yourself!

29/11/2023

Please note that essential maintenance will be undertaken on the Food Cupboard at Copperhouse and so it will not be in use for the next few days.

Food can still be collected from the Foundry Cupboard as per normal.

Many thanks 🙏

28/09/2023

Hello and welcome to Hayle Community Food Cupboard and Food Share! We are delighted to be launching our brand-new page!
Hayle Community Food Cupboard started, as many food share initiatives did, during the COVID Lockdowns, when members of the community came together, in time of need and in direct response to reducing food waste.

Fast forward some years later and we are still going strong! We have two, well-stocked community food cupboards, one in Copperhouse outside Phillack Church Hall and one in Foundry, next to the Royal Mail sorting office, which are filled daily, by our volunteers with food that we save from local supermarkets, via our partnerships with https://www.neighbourly.com , Fairshare and other generous local businesses.

We work alongside our friends at https://devonandcornwallfoodaction.org who regularly bring affordable food parcels down to families in West Cornwall.

We stock the cupboards with a wonderful range of fresh, seasonal, produce, grown right here in Cornwall, courtesy of our friends at the https://gleaningcornwall.org.uk. Hard-working volunteers who go out in all weathers, throughout the year, to glean unharvested leftover vegetables and fruit, with kind permission from farmers and growers, saving it from being ploughed back into the fields or wasted.

Fortunate also to be supported independently by Lidls, Marks & Spencers, Aldi, Sainsburys and the Hayle Town Council, every year we are able to deliver a fantastic BIG Christmas Foodshare in partnership with volunteers from the Hayle Foodbank, volunteers from Phillack Church who run the Community Cafe in Cppoerhouse, Volunteer Cornwall, Bodriggy Health Centre and Hayle Town Council, hosted very graciously and generously over two weeks in Phillack Church Hall.

So, now you know a little bit about us! 😊😊 Please spread the word, and help us to prevent food waste!

We have some very, very exciting news coming really soon, so watch this space!

A Cornwall wide network of famers, volunteer gleaners and community food services working to salvage farm produce, tackling waste and food poverty