Every Christmas morning, our volunteer, Jennie, gets together with her family and a few friends, and they play carols in the street for their neighbours and local community. This year and last, they made a collection for Exeter Food Action, and this year they raised over £100, for which we’re so grateful. That’s Jennie’s mum in the purple hat with her collection box, and the smiling maestro on guitar is Jon Curtis, one of our original founders. Thank you all!
We’re literally full of beans about a donation we received this week. Our friends at Gleaning Cornwall have supplied us with 100kg of coffee beans from Origin Coffee, with a whopping value of around £1,000!
We’re basking in the gorgeous aroma in our warehouse right now (a nice change from sprouts!), but the beans will soon be bouncing their way to local warm spaces, where visitors can relax out of the cold and enjoy a steaming cuppa. Thank you Gleaning Cornwall!
Last year, thanks to the kindness of Exeter video production company, Fresh Ground Films, we were able to create this wonderful video. Ross, the owner, and his incredible team, spent several days with us on numerous shoots in different locations. We think that the film, at just under 5 minutes, captures the very essence of what we do, and that’s because Ross took his time, asked lots of questions, spoke to many staff and volunteers, joined us at our warehouse, on van deliveries and even came gleaning pumpkins in muddy fields. He saw what we do, turning food waste into hope, and that a big chunk of how we do it is down to the hard work of over fifty incredible volunteers, our beating heart. Thank you Ross and Fresh Ground Films. You got us just right!
Last year, our incredible volunteer, Ellen, took on a mighty challenge and invited people to do a bit of house decluttering, asking them if they had any unwanted books and CDs that they could donate, which she’d then turn into money. We weren’t sure how well it might go but it soon took off and, as of the date of this post, thanks to Ellen’s amazing hard work, she’s raised a whopping £3,800, which has been an enormous help to us.
If you’re keen to do a bit of decluttering and can help her hit the £4,000 mark or higher, it’s easily done. Simply drop them off at the address below where, to the side of Ellen’s house on the left, there’s an undercover area, sheltered from the rain, from where she’ll eventualy retrieve them and work her magic. It’s that easy!
19 Rosebarn Lane, Exeter, EX4 5EL.
Thank you.
