Second Helpings - Stamford

01/09/2026

Come and cook with us! Our Cooking with Confidence course is a lovely, relaxed space to learn tasty, budget‑friendly skills and enjoy making meals together with a really welcoming community 💛🍳

Would you like to learn the basics of cookery?

Food prep, knife skills, food hygiene, and delicious meal ideas that you can cook at home?

Little waste, low cost, and nutritious food, that you can then enjoy socially as a group.

Make sure you sign up for Cooking with Confidence!

This is a practical, fun and friendly course that will take you through the basics and end up with you feeling confident about cooking a range of meals.

One evening a week for six weeks that will help you meal plan and feed you and your family on a budget.

We are delighted to partner with Second Helpings - Stamford who are helping provide some of the ingredients, and the course is led by a qualified nutritionist so you can make healthy meals that taste wonderful!

The cost is £25, which is only £4.20 per session. This covers the cost of the food and running the course.

It starts on Tuesday 8th September.
5-7pm
Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford

Use the link below to sign up and secure your place: https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/6swtkfJ9InrD5WTpPjQD

29/08/2026

🍲 Join us for lunch today! 🍲

Come along to Stamford’s Barn Hill Methodist Church for this week’s Second Helpings community lunch! ❤️🍲

Our wonderful cooks, Julie and Richard, are preparing a comforting menu of vegetable soup, roast beef, veggie chilli, and a delicious banana sponge — something for everyone to enjoy! 🥕🥩🌶️🍌

We’re also delighted to be welcoming an extra 37 guests this week, cyclists taking part in the Queen Eleanor Bike Ride, a challenging 219-mile charity ride to St Martin-in-the-Fields! 🚴‍♀️ We’re looking forward to giving them a warm welcome and a well-earned, hearty lunch along the way.

Made using surplus food from local suppliers, we’re proud to turn great ingredients into delicious homemade meals, bringing people together while helping to reduce food waste. 🌍♻️

Lunch is served from 12–1.30pm, and everyone is welcome. It’s pay-as-you-feel, with donations helping us continue providing community meals and making a difference locally.

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28/08/2026

Where has August gone?

It's been another busy month full of food collections, sorting, cleaning, meeting, greeting and helping where we can.

Thank you to everyone who's been part of it.

Now... fingers crossed for September and the Mercury Business Awards!

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https://mercurybusinessawards.co.uk/2026/en/page/home

24/08/2026

No two days at Second Helpings are ever the same!

Some days we have loads of fruit.

Other days you can't move because we've got loads of loaves of bread.

Sometimes it's enough to fill the shelves...
..and sometimes it's gone almost as quickly as we put it out.

Because the cost of living has made times hard for lots of people. And we're happy to help wherever we can.

22/08/2026

🍲 Join us for lunch today! 🍲

The weather may have cooled down a little, but it’s still a lovely day to come along to Stamford’s Barn Hill Methodist Church for a delicious homemade community lunch! ☀️🍲

Our wonderful cooks, Giles and Heather, are busy preparing sweetcorn soup, fish pie, green bean & tomato stew, and a delicious blackberry & apple sponge — a lovely selection of homemade dishes to enjoy! 🌽🥧🍅🍎

Using surplus food collected from local Stamford suppliers, we turn great ingredients into wholesome, homemade dishes that bring people together and help reduce food waste. ❤️🌍

Food is served 12–1.30pm and everyone’s welcome. It’s pay-as-you-feel, with donations helping us keep feeding the community and reducing food waste. 💪

Come and join us for some good food, good company and a warm welcome. We hope to see you there! 👋

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21/08/2026

If you've been thinking about popping in but haven't yet...

Please do.

You'll always find a friendly welcome.

Come and have a look around, say hello and see what we've got available.

You might even leave with something nice for tea!

19/08/2026

Our Pantry staff love seeing the look on a customer's face when they spot something they weren't expecting.

Punnets of strawberries...

A glut of asparagus...

Or a bunch of bananas... Actually, to be fair, we ALWAYS have bananas! 🍌 😂

It makes our day to make our customers' day!

15/08/2026

🍲 Dine with us today! 🍲

Come along to Stamford’s Barn Hill Methodist Church for a delicious homemade community lunch.

Our fab cooks Caroline and Dinah are busy preparing mushroom soup, roast lamb and a tasty veggie chilli — something for everyone! 🥕🌶️🍲

Made using surplus food collected from Stamford suppliers, our meals are homemade, hearty and guaranteed to be delicious. ❤️

Food is served 12–1.30pm and everyone’s welcome. It’s pay-as-you-feel, with donations helping us keep feeding the community and reducing food waste. 💪🌍

Come and join us for a warm welcome, good food and good company. We hope to see you there! 👋

13/08/2026

People often ask why food comes to us.

Maybe there's too much.

Maybe the packaging has changed.

Maybe it's close to its best-before date.

Whatever the reason, the food we get back out into the community has absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Which is why we'd much rather see it on someone's table than in a bin.

11/08/2026

How a typical morning in the Pantry can look…

A hive of activity. Crates everywhere. Volunteers chatting. Food being sorted. Cups of tea brewing. Shelves laden and ready for our customers who are often already queueing at the door.

It can be a bit hectic...

But we wouldn't have it any other way.

If you want to be part of the buzz of saving good food and sending it out into the community, join our team.

Email mailto:[email protected] or call 07842 738348.