The SEC Food Cupboard is a community project set up to reduce waste.
A group of local volunteers receives/collects surplus food from the supermarkets (Eg via Felix Project) and makes it available to anyone and everyone from the local area. The SEC Food Cupboard is available to all โ its aim is purely to reduce waste and everyone can help with that. Always Free!
The selection of food items each week will vary according to what is surplus food on that day.
15 GoodGymers have supported South Ealing Community Food Cupboard with 31 tasks.
Monday 23rd September 2024 10:30am - 11:30am
Monday 30th September 2024 10:30am - 11:30am
Monday 7th October 2024 10:30am - 11:30am
Monday 14th October 2024 10:30am - 11:30am
Monday 21st October 2024 10:30am - 11:30am
Monday 28th October 2024 10:30am - 11:30am
Monday 22nd July
Written by Michelle
Today five Goodgymers including one disguised in a North London football jersey helped with unloading food deliveries at South Ealing Community Food Cupboard.
We arrived in time for the second delivery of the day, with surplus food from supermarkets (eg Felix project) and everyone sprang into action. Unloading the crates full of fruit, vegetables and refrigerated stock.
I was the only first timer today so I got to watch as the team ferried crates back and forth from the delivery van, and the shelves were replenished. There was time to bag up some croissants and sausage rolls and then we left the regular volunteers to finish off preparing for when the doors open to the community at 1pm.
Monday 8th July
Written by Kash
Monday the 8th of July was when the stars perfectly aligned and two food delivery vans landed flawlessly on time at St Maryโs Church to keep the regular volunteers and five GoodGymers occupied for over an hour with a mission to save nearly out-of-date food from going to the bin.
"It has never been so busy since I started coming here weekly. And that was three months ago!" - Martin.
The day was bright and full of secrets that were about to be exposed in the daylight.
The big team quickly dealt with two food deliveries, the latter being packed with a plethora of goodies saved from waste. Vegan rice pudding, easy peelers, pineapples, bananas, raw chicken and savoury pastries were numerous. After unloading the vans, there were still plenty of jobs for us to help organise the food:
"It's a real transformation!", observed Alan, seeing how the empty room transformed in an hour into a treasury of foodstuffs.
All the volunteers were welcome to help themselves to the abundance of rescued surplus food.
South Ealing Community Food Cupboard is a community project set up to reduce waste and make surplus food from the supermarkets available to anyone in the local area. Join the great cause with other GoodGymers each Monday morning!
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Monday 1st July
Written by Martin Giese
Alan and I were needed today. Well done to Alan for bagging up the pieces - rather, big lumps - of raw meat - good effort , Alan !
Monday 15th April
Written by Beata (she/her)
Not even the severe weather conditions could stop 3 GoodGymmers (Mr.Afsar, Martin and Beata) to attend their mission @ South Ealing Community Food Cupboard this morning. Despite the rain and strong winds Beata thought it was a good idea to walk to the task, and nearly turned around due to getting completely soaked by a hail shower. Luckily, she wasn't ready to give up so easily. Mr. Afsar was already waiting at the church when she arrived. Both being relatively new to GoodGym, happily exchanged their experiences about the amazing work they get to do for the community. While they were waiting for the van to arrive, Mr. Aksar proudly shown the photos taken during the previous task he attended @Horsenden farm. After a short wait the van arrived and they started unloading the groceries. With the help of the church staff, they managed to move the delivery inside so quick that they got time to unpack three boxes of sausage rolls into small freezer bags as well! At the end of the shift Mr. Afsar planned to stay and see the church inside, Beata run home to get out of the drenched good gym uniform as soon as possible.
Monday 8th April
Written by Martin Giese
Quite a big job today - well done to Afsar (new member) for coming to help today - it was needed and much appreciated!
Monday 11th March
Written by Martin Giese
both food Van's turned up at the same time unexpectedly (!). With several helpers down it was much appreciated that Roberta came to help . Well done on your first mission roberta !
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