FareShare have been giving the mutual aid groups in the West End food every week for free which we have used to make food parcels and put into the community larders. They are where we've been getting the bulk of our food.
From October onward they are going to start charging us for food. To continue getting food that everyone can access we need to think about different possibilities for getting food. To get food cheaply we could buy food together as a community and everyone involved could get a reasonable amount of staple food for a week (at the start it would probably be fruit, vegetables, dry food, tins, pasta, and rice). The idea is that we could decide together what we wanted to buy and each person or household could choose the food they wanted from that.
We have some specific questions to start off the planning process for the future. We will use the answers to make decisions that take everyone's views and situations into account. If you have questions about this process, please feel free to email
elswickmutualaid@gmail.com or
arthurshill.mutualaid@outlook.com