12/04/2026
What a fantastic effort this week! 🚗💨
A huge THANK YOU to volunteer Chris and his trusty little helper who set off on a big shopping mission and returned with a car absolutely packed full of goodness! 🛒✨ Thanks to your generous donations collected over the past year, they spent a whopping £460 on essentials including milk, tinned peaches, chopped tomatoes and tomato sauce — plus some brilliant fresh additions like sausages, mince and cheddar 🥛🍑🍅🧀
We’re really excited to be increasing our fresh food offering. With the generous gift of a fridge freezer from CJ Hampshire, and the continued support from Liphook School (who we owe so much for hosting us on their grounds 💛), we’re now able to store and distribute more fresh items than ever before.
As part of our holistic approach, we’re encouraging clients to cook with fresh ingredients — and items like mince, sausages and cheddar are a great starting point. Our cookery lessons are helping build confidence too, showing how meals can be stretched further by adding vegetables and store cupboard staples like kidney beans 👩🍳🍲
We’re also proud to offer locally sourced produce when we can — with eggs from Downlands and veg from Ed’s Veg often travelling just a couple of miles to reach us 🥚🥕🌱
Quantities are carefully monitored to support each household, with most receiving mince or sausages along with cheese each week. It’s been so encouraging to see more people choosing fresh over processed foods, putting new skills into practice and making their meals go further 🙌
Thank you to everyone who makes this possible — your support truly is making a difference 💚
