Scrub for the grub

7 Goodgymers helped their local community in Kingston upon Thames
Kieran O'Connor
Luke
Jana
Claire Dunne
Rachel White
Dave White
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Kingston upon Thames

Tuesday 11th March

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We had a lovely group run to Kingston Surplus Food Hub. It's a new initiative set up by Kingston Voluntary Action to help tackle food waste and poverty in the area. A significant amount of food is bought in by supermarkets and wasted so the idea is to set up a kitchen to absorb some of these ingredients and turn it into delicious food for the community. It's not up and running yet and we were asked to help to prepare the kitchen and the outside area to get it up to a certain standard - and so we did.

Claire, Emily, Jana, Rachel and Emma all tackled to the kitchen - picking sticky glue marks off the walls and scrubbing them down. There were three rooms in total but the amount of work that was needed meant that we only managed two rooms out the three. Dave, Luke and Kieran were out in the car park - moving branches and green waste. A big tidy up by all.

So much to do and the hour went quickly by. We had a great laugh doing it - we'll be back to help in a couple of months.


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Kingston Surplus Food Hub
A surplus food hub for Kingston borough, reducing food inequality in the borough

We are creating a central location to collect and distribute surplus food within the borough, with a kitchen to process surplus food collected. We will be build a full commercial kitchen, along with a prep kitchen and large refrigerated storage.

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