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Tarbolton food Larder strives to reduce food waste and food poverty by using surplus food to give cooking demonstrations, distribute and give handy tip and recipes to the local community to ensure not a scrap goes to waste. In this current climate it has become apparent that more and more families need access to food for their families. We want to take the stigma off charity for families that don’t want to ask by engaging in our local communities providing a warm friendly service. We already run a charity for children and run many drop in cafe days for people to come and get a free meal. We have a charity van for transport, we have 2 large fridges and 2 large chest freezers for storage We operate from Annbank Community hall where we run lots of community events. We advertise when we are going to be there and have private messages from families in need. Most families contact through the NBCC charity. Our Night before Christmas campaign has been in the press on tv and a motion has just recently been passed through Scottish Parliament recognising our work with children and families. We have partnered up with Ayrshire food hub who provide frozen meals on a Tuesday they are also providing a new freezer. I have emailed Lauren. We have also worked with the Kincaidston food hub and the Ukrainian support. We are also working in conjunction with the three sixty club which is a mental health charity who are going to be running a cafe. https://www.facebook.com/ThreeSixtyAyrshire ALLAN DORANS MP CONGRATULATES ... - Ayrshire Daily News facebook.com hLRJ1GG_y0J.ico

Newton Primary is a school in an area where many individuals and families face daily challenges. We support families by providing food shopping list items, clothing (new and nearly new), kitchen utensils and household goods, bedding and energy top ups. We also support our families and those in the community by helping them access advice from various agencies eg income maximisation, smoking cessation, local charities and employability. Our shopping list is updated weekly on our school app and families ask for what they need. We have an open door once a week for bags and lunch, during this time members of the community come and get food, etc from our store.

The purposes of Corner Cupboard establishment and operations are the prevention and relief of food poverty in the Ayrshire area, the advancement of citizenship/community development and the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage in ways including :- 4.1 The provision of food to those identified as being in need of the services of the Foodbank; 4.2 Working with other local and national organisations to ensure those in food poverty and other disadvantaged people have access to the appropriate information to enable them to explore ways to make improvements to their life conditions and alleviate the hardship they are suffering or prevent any future hardship; and 4.3 working with other agencies to ensure those in food poverty and other disadvantaged people, armed with the appropriate information, have guidance and support to allow them to be proactive in improving their life conditions and alleviate the hardship they are suffering or prevent any future hardship. 4.4 To promote the provision with the object of temporarily relieving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities are primarily intended