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Transition Constantine has set up a Food Waste Stall to offer free food and commodities to the people of Constantine. Supplies are from supermarket food surplus or slightly damaged goods, gleaning and donations from allotments or similar. The first station is at Staplehurst, Bowling Green Constantine, near the doctors surgery and there are plans approved by the committee to add a second facility at the other end of the village next to the Social Club. The donations are laid out on a purpose built stall near the Doctors Surgery with access for passers by. The local shopkeeper and doctor contacted Transition highlighting their concerns about food poverty in the village, and the fact that people were not using the tiny, limited foodbank facility due to the stigma surrounding apparent need in a small community such as Constantine. The Reduce Food Waste initiative grew out of this as a vehicle to offer much needed supplies to anyone who wishes to pass by and help themselves without prejudice. Anyone can take the food, according to their needs or abilities for example medlars and similar fruit from gleaning has been used to make jellies etc. to avoid the surplus fruit going rotten. It is totally free at the point of collection. At this point we are collecting surplus food from Asda once a week, and from farm gleaning, and volunteer donations. Transition Constantine runs a monthly Farmers Market in the village to support local food producers, crafts people and includes such initiatives as a childrens clothes swap, bicycle repairs and clothes repairs for reasonable sums. In addition there is a cafe run by the PTA to gain funding for the school and foster social interaction in the community, particularly for the elderly who use it as a monthly meet and greet session over tea and cake. Transition Cornwall's work is reported on monthly in the ConstantTimes, a local newspaper, link to this is online below. We are also promoting the use of slow cookers as an economical way to use and cook surplus food. To date this has been through a table at the Farmers Market and at the Community Lunch held in October. There are plans to extend this to include lessons in the future.

Growing Links CIC was created in 2013 as an action against food poverty. We wanted to readdress the balance between people in our community going hungry despite increased food waste nationally. Our Food Store facility provides essential store cupboard essentials, as well as fresh vegetables, to families and individuals in our community in West Cornwall, an area where incomes are low and work often seasonal. Many families and individuals are having to choose between paying their bills and rent, heating their homes or eating. Already supporting upwards of 250 per week, these numbers have been exasperated by COVID-19 with many people being unable to work and unable to access financial support. Our meal service Street Food Project provides hot food to our local homeless community and others who are vulnerably housed often without access to cooking facilities. We have operated 365 days a year for three and a half years often serving upwards of 30 meals per night. COVID-19 has forced us to suspend our meal service in its original format and we are now delivering food to individuals at various locations in our community. Our collective food bill in order to deliver these services is approximately £1000 per week. You can read more about Growing Links and our various projects by visiting www.growinglinks.org.uk Thank you for your support

Remake: Cornwall is a repurpose and reuse organisation which is passionate about keeping food, textiles and furniture from landfill. For the past six months we have provided a daily community fridge facility supported by 13 volunteer drivers and fridge hosts to support over 150 families each week from across cornwall. Yesterday we distributed 21 meat hampers to families by collaborating with Isabel Rose Farm & coop stores. We don't request data or information , we do support needy families also, but the key is for the whose community to access food waste and so far not a single item we have received has gone to landfill. Please see our Facebook page Remake: Cornwall for more information, our fridge is hosted Monday - Saturday 10-10.30 as follows: Monday - Tanyas Courage Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Prosperity Hub Friday & Saturday - Tanyas Courage *** Prosperity Hub 86 Stennacks Lane, Holmbush, St Austell PL25 3JQ Tanyas Courage, Par Moor Road, Par PL24