Hi all, hope everyones keeping well over the big gap covering Easter.
I've potentially had a bit of good news. I've been speaking to Fare Share and they're really interested in our project. I was initially advised of the £1000 annual membership fee! thankfully the conversation didn't end there. As we are the first project like this that they know of and they happen to have just been awarded a community grant and they like what we're planning, they're looking at doing it for free for the first year as a pilot, though there may be some delivery costs - it's all to be confirmed....watch this space! :-)
They feel that we could get at least 80% of the food we need from them. They said that meat, veg and bread are plentiful during the summer months although we will only know what food we'll get the week before but if we're creating one pot (ish) type recipes then this shouldn't matter too much. Each delivery is about 200kg of food! We will have further discussions about how far in advance the delivery would arrive and possible storage issues when I speak with them again.
Have a fabulous Easter.
(come see me get Baptised this Sunday at Melton Vineyard (Pera), you're all welcome. Service starts 10.30am until 12pm)
Julie
I've potentially had a bit of good news. I've been speaking to Fare Share and they're really interested in our project. I was initially advised of the £1000 annual membership fee! thankfully the conversation didn't end there. As we are the first project like this that they know of and they happen to have just been awarded a community grant and they like what we're planning, they're looking at doing it for free for the first year as a pilot, though there may be some delivery costs - it's all to be confirmed....watch this space! :-)
They feel that we could get at least 80% of the food we need from them. They said that meat, veg and bread are plentiful during the summer months although we will only know what food we'll get the week before but if we're creating one pot (ish) type recipes then this shouldn't matter too much. Each delivery is about 200kg of food! We will have further discussions about how far in advance the delivery would arrive and possible storage issues when I speak with them again.
Have a fabulous Easter.
(come see me get Baptised this Sunday at Melton Vineyard (Pera), you're all welcome. Service starts 10.30am until 12pm)
Julie