Lidl Edinburgh - Craigleith

At Tummies Not Trash, we believe good food belongs in tummies, not in the trash. Our volunteer team operates 7 days a week, collecting surplus food from retailers across Edinburgh and redistributing it through our central Hub, helping ensure perfectly good food is eaten rather than wasted. Food collected through our network is made available in a number of ways: Free items, including bread, fruit, vegetables and other short-life produce, are available to all throughout our opening hours. Within the Hub, chilled, frozen and ambient items are also redistributed through our community basket model, with voluntary donations helping to support transport, storage, premises and the ongoing running of the charity. To maximise impact and minimise waste, surplus food from our Hub is also shared daily with partner organisations across Edinburgh, including schools, libraries, lunch clubs and community centres, helping extend the reach of good food into local communities. Everything we do is built around our simple goal: reducing food waste, supporting communities, and making the very most of food that would otherwise go to waste.

SHRUB Cooperative is an organisation based in Edinburgh. The Food Sharing Hub initiative collects surplus food and redistributes it free of charge to the local community, food provision partners and a network of Edinburgh hostels. The Food Sharing Hub is Scotland’s first rescued food shop. Now located at the Pavilion Cafe and Community Hub, it saves surplus food from supermarkets and small businesses around Edinburgh from an unnecessary fate in the bin. It’s open for everyone. Simply come along to the Food Sharing Hub, fill a basket with food and take it for free or give a donation. How does it happen? To get all of this delicious food on our shelves, it takes a lot of work and a dedicated team of volunteers! ​ Step 1 In the evenings, our collection team travel round all our partner stores on cargo bikes collecting food that the stores haven't managed to sell. Step 2 These collectors then bring the food to a team of volunteers waiting at the Pavilion who sort through it and store it appropriately. This team take some of the food to local hostels on their way home. Step 3 The next morning, a team of volunteers from the Pavilion come in early to arrange the food on the shelves and put aside some food for other partner organisations. Step 4 Our doors open at 10:30am and our shelves are looking full and tidy - all thanks to all these people! We're open 7 days a week from 10:30am til at least 15:30pm -- sometimes longer!

St Nicholas Church, Sighthill has had a longstanding connection with children in the parish and beyond, dating back to 1939, when our congregation was established. We are growing steadily, as a local church in the community and, in particular, in the ministry of care and support for families and children in our parish. Our most recent annual event, which attracts around 180 children and their families, is St Nicholas Day. We hold this celebration at the beginning of the advent season and on Sunday that is closest to St Nicholas Day (6th December). It is attended by; (a) children who come to our Sunday school (Navigators) and messy church (held on the first Friday of every month) events, (b) grandchildren and great-grandchildren of our church members, (c) children who live and play in the parish or who go to the four primary schools located in (or close to) the parish (Murrayburn, Sighthill, Canal View and St Josephs) and (c) around 100 children in all the groups (Monday Rainbows and Brownies, Tuesday Rainbows and Brownies, Elite dancers, Karate group, Cheeky monkey’s Toddler group and Demarco Dance group) that use our buildings during the week. Our focus, on St Nicholas Day, is to create a free, happy and safe space where our church, community and especially the friends of the church can share gifts and talents and help, in all ways possible, to make Christmas a happy and special time for children. In addition to St Nichoals Day, Sunday services, Mid-week meetings and other special gatherings, we hold regular family and community events in our buildings. including; a coffee morning (on Wednesdays 10:30 am – 12:30 pm) and Together@lunch (a free community lunch held, twice a month, in partnership with Bethany Christian Trust, Be Healthy Together and other groups). Also, thanks to our growing partnership with Neighbourly, we now pass on around 600kg of food items, donated to us by M&S, to individuals, families and groups in our community We are exploring ways of developing this initiative into a project (Let’s Eat Together) where on the one hand, we’ll support the vision of M&S and other superstores to reduce, by one half, the amount food wasted in their stores and, on the other, pass on food to the elderly, vulnerable and needy individuals and families in our community. Again, we are keen, very keen to set up a community project (Let’s Eat Together) which will include together@lunch and two Community Food and Fridge hubs. We plan to locate one of these hubs in the Calders (where we work well and in partnership with Bethany Christian Trust, Calder Residents Association, local schools and other groups). The second will be located in our premises. Like the 75 other community food an Fridge hubs in the UK, we are keen to see this these hubs serve our community well as a place to share food in empowering and respectful ways, reduce waste, encourage connection and promote, to use an African term, a sense of communalism.