Funmy Adeojo•3 years ago We are opening E6-Sister’s Food Library/Community Pantry to everyone considering the cost-of-living crisis biting everyone lately.We would welcome anyone, young and elderly, families with young children or travelling families, illegal immigrants and itinerants and parents or families who do not have any fixed abode, who needs extra support during these tough times can access without any professional referrals or the traditional limitation of CAP ineligibility, We would simply ask people to sign up as a member and contribute a small contribution towards stock and running costs per visit. The E6-Sister’s Food Library/Community Pantry will offer fresh, frozen, tinned, jarred, and packaged food all at a fraction of the price of the supermarkets.Anyone who wishes to use the Pantry is welcome to do so. Guests who have been referred to us by other community organisations will be offered the same membership. The membership fee for all guests is £10. This membership fee allows residents toaccess The Food Library/Community pantry twice per week - every week! - for a whole year.There will also be a small contribution payable for each visit. This fee will be between£10 and depends on which tier of service you'd like to use, which is shop only one basket or 2 baskets is the maximum on each visit.During each visit, the resident would be invited to browse the wide selection of foods and household items we have on offer and fill up a largebasket with whatever they'd like without anyone forcing things they don’t like or eat on them; they can shop a maximum of 2basket full of goods at each visit to enable others to access the same quality of goods available. There would be weekly recipes available to promote a healthy home cook for families A full and thorough explanation of this can be found in the enclosed.Welcome Pack, but if anyone has any questions, they are very welcome to give us a call or email and we'd be happy to answer your queries. Which would be displayed and available when we are fully running.If anyone'd like to register for this service enclosed Welcome Pack and return the completed registration form. we can be found on Google on the Facebook search and anyone with technology skills will be able to use the QR code. all the items would be displayed on the foldaway mobile cart in the Eastham Library to enable easy access as well as to prevent the disturbance of other services that use the library. at the end of each week, the foldable cart would be wheeled away for restocking (please see the picture of the foldable mobile cart workstation below)our aim in opening an accessible food Library would be to eliminate poverty and pride among ourselves among our youths, as the majority that needs help is always too shy or pride to ask for help due to the stigma of what other people would be thinking of them or saying about them hence a lot of people feel so shy to ask for help or visit food bank as they don’t know who will see them etc. This Food Library would prevent huge food waste among our residents most of the food bank only gives whatever is packaged in a bag even though the majority may not be able to eat what they are given e.g. "You take what you are given" even if they don't know how to eat it" The Food Library would give the resident a place of their own even if they don’t have much. it would boost their confidence in the ability to buy things for themselves with the little contributions they make on a weekly visit to the pantry. it would prevent junk foods in our youth by providing healthy food at a very affordable rate to eradicate starvation stealing and shoplifting of daily needs from the High Street stores. According to Daily Mail on the (26th of July 2023) mentioned shoplifting epidemic has turned Britain's High Street Stores into the battlefield, items such as daily needs such as milk, babyhoods, and chocolate bars skyrocketed which resulted in the security tags being used on daily needs. Police data suggests a 75% rise in stealing food, drink, and baby formula also mentioned that retail thefts have reached the highest leave in England and Wales according to reports. we would use our signpost leaflets would be shared online and among residents to create awareness before we start opening our service. Opening hours would be from Thursdays -Fridays 9 am to 6 pm to enable those at work that may want to access the Food Library to have a chance. More so, we would have a special event during the festive periods such as Easter, Christmas, Eid, and any cultural event to promote resident cultural backgrounds such as Diwali, Chinese New Year Halloween and many more. Finally, the aim of this project is the use all the skills I have acquired in the last 15 years in the sporting goods industry dealing with dealerships and manufactural direct to the locals to meet their needs and giving back to the community when the community can figure out a solution to their problems it works well without waiting on government. There is a say that says when food is available and accessible poverty diminishes and stability returns. Meanwhile, details of all the manufacturers and dealers who have accepted our registration such as Sos wholesalers, clearance XL, and Harrison dealers would be attached to my main application.
