GAIL's Bakery Chester

We founded The Cupboard Network in order to help prevent food waste in the community. We are horrified at how much perfectly good food goes to waste due to widely inaccurate use by/best before dates. We found ourselves with a lot of surplus food after collecting and distributing from various organisations, and thought we would offer it out into the community via our "community cupboard". We've quickly had to expand due to such a fantastic response from the community and we've been able to provide lots of food parcels to vulnerable people, whilst also tackling the war on waste! The cupboard is open to everyone, regardless of background or income as our main focus will always be to reduce the amount of food that goes to waste. We do ask for a small donation where possible if you come to collect from us; as little as £1 here and there helps us to continue to offer this service. We opened The Table Community Café in March 2023, providing free hot and cold meals and refreshments at our full table service café. We operate a food bank session every Wednesday and Citizen’s Advice are on hand for queries. If you've got any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! Keep fighting this war on waste with us! We appreciate you ❤

Hi I’m Claire I’m running a food donation cupboard for surplus food from my home address for my community which is Rossett burton and lavister in Wrexham and the border of England there is a population of 3500 people in this village alone and plenty of single people Upto family’s are really struggling even more at this very moment .. I’m fairly new with my new cupboard to share free food or food boxes to people who are in need and to ensure people have a meal daily also to cut down waste going to landfill which is a extra bonus I have set up a Facebook page for people of any requirements that are struggling to get in touch with us or pass any details we will be looking at delivering once a week to elderly when we have contact details in place that don’t use social media for instance I shall be making up flyers and contact cards to give people peace of mind to arrange the help for them with no charge in place.

We are based in Connah's Quay, Deeside in a newly renovated church and community hub. We host a weekly Community Grocery (where those attending can take 10 items for £3) and a coffee shop on Friday mornings and a Mix and Mingle on a Friday afternoon. We also host conversational English classes helping people from Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We have good links with the local primary school and are developing links with the art department at the local High School who we hope will produce art from us. We have made links with the community through our pioneer missioner, our church work and our links with other faith and community groups. We rely on food supplies from Neighbourly and particularly on donations of dry goods, cans, and cereals which are often donated by individuals as part of their weekly shop. We have partnered with one of the women attending the community hub to run our Instagram page (@QuaystoneHub) and communicate our work through her Facebook.