3Food4u

Story

We are very conscious that it can be embarrassing and awkward asking for support for the most basic essentials, food and clothes, especially when you have been self sufficient all your life. Most importantly we are not assessing people or asking for a referral with so much surplus food and the stress and delay that it causes there is no need. If people are brave enough to ask for help we will support them. Our ethos is treating and supporting people humanely with dignity and respect. We want the whole process to be as natural as possible. We will lay out the food/essentials/clothing and people will be given a basket and they will be able to choose what they like (within reason/quantities). We are not labelling this as a foodbank, it is a community surplus hub. In addition our big motive is to stop much of what we have been given by large PLCs going to landfill. Over the last 8 months my colleagues and I have distributed 100s tonnes of food/drink which was overproduced and surplus to requirements, and would have been destroyed.