The 'Side Larder was set up in 2022 and provides a community larder for the people of Springside. Run by volunteers as part of the Community Association, we are open every Friday from 10am - 2pm.
Come along and get help with food and energy support. We provide frozen, chilled and tinned foods along with a cup of tea and a chat.
Description
We are looking for £1000 to help stock our larder over the winter months. The cost of food has increased a lot and our range of foods has been reduced in line with rising costs. We have a lot of older single people who are going to be impacted by the removal of the winter heating allowance so they will be more reliant on coming to the larder each week.
£1000 will allow us to bulk buy our tinned and ambient stock for Jan - March 2025 and ensure that our members have access to a range of foods suitable for their needs.
We have approx over 100 households registered at our community larder and this works out at approx £10 per household.
Example of a £10 basket would be:
Muesli - £1.89
Cooking sauce - £0.87
chicken kievs - £2.25
2 tins soup - £1.50
tuna - £0.69
sweetcorn - £0/49
Peas - £0.33
yoghurts - £0.95
1kg bag past - £1.29
This is an average type of basket and we would multiply this by the number of weekly shoppers and base it on the special offers in the shop. There fore it is difficult to give exact costs for items but ambient, chilled and frozen foods.
Location: Springside is a small village on the outskirts of Irvine. We do not have a main supermarket and local households rely on the village shop, which is more expensive than bigger supermarkets. Without access to a car, you need to get the bus into Irvine , which is not always possible for some of our older people. We have built relationships with our members and can help with energy and offer other advice to help them with rising costs.
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