Tag: Your Local Pantry

Nottingham’s first Your Local Pantry opens

We’re helping local partners to reclaim dignity, choice and hope in Nottingham. The first Your Local Pantry in Nottingham has opened to members. Meadows Pantry opened in Bridgeway Hall Methodist Mission in The Meadows on September 28th. There are just over

Food, friends & a future: SRGs are a recipe for success

Food and cookery bring us together. and unleash our potential – just like SRGs. Julia Turshen, the American author and food equity advocate, describes cooking as a “constant reminder of transformation and possibility”.  In her book, Feed The Resistance, she writes: “Cooking

The compassion in these neighbourhood pantries is fantastic!

Throughout 2022, we are telling the stories from the Dignity, Agency, Power calendar. May’s page features Your Local Pantry, so we caught up with James Henderson, who became network development coordinator for Your Local Pantry at the end of last

What’s the best way to reduce the stigma of food poverty?

How do we safeguard food access without compromising on dignity? Charities and community groups have wrestled with this for years. Firstly, through a decade of austerity, then most recently and acutely during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Now, we do have one