Another busy month at the centre, our cooks did an amazing job of holding things together while we had problems in the kitchen. They put together some wonderful cold buffet style lunches and we are so grateful for their patience.
With the closure of the centre on Wednesdays we have noticed that the days we are open are getting busier, this creates a great atmosphere in the centre but sometimes a longer wait for lunch. Remember we start serving at 1pm so make sure you get here in time.
We are making changes to our emergency food process. We are no longer giving out food ad hoc. Instead we will be supporting people to make referrals to the food bank, signposting to other services and help to access our computers to look at budgeting skills. Please remember you can only receive a supermarket voucher from us once, if you have had one from us please do not ask again. We know these changes can be difficult to process but we want to ensure we always have enough food to give people in food crisis. Always remember we offer a low cost lunch Tuesday/Thursday and Friday and we usually have lots of goodies on the free table so help yourself.
We had a Citizens advice workshop here on the 24th, we are hoping this will be a monthly and ongoing addition. We will have more information about this in the October update.
In October Friday Yoga will now be on a Thursday at 11.30. No need to book, just turn up.
On the 24th October our first Winter warmer workshop starts. We have a great line up for you including games/ raffles/cooking/dancing and fun. This is being offered to current centre users and hopefully will bring in some new people too!
We had a lovely group of students from Brighton college visit our allotment this month, they did a great job of working together and painting the shed. We’ve had some great produce from the garden recently, apples, salad, chilli’s and coming soon squashes.
Have a great month.