As part of our community grant funding, we are starting to host monthly community meals! The aim of our community meal project is to provide free, healthy food and a space for community and connection across the neighbourhood. The meals are vegan and mostly mostly gluten free to be inclusive for everyone. Especially in the face of the worsening cost of living crisis, we believe that spaces like these are so important, and we are thankful to the National Lottery Community Fund for supporting this project.

On November 19th, we hosted our first monthly community meal, in collaboration with SLURP. We made Ethiopian lentil stew, chilli, carrot and coriander soup, and Texas sheet cake. Very excited that our first meal was well attended, with 70 people joining us from the community! We’re so excited to continue this project over the next two years, so keep an eye out for the next monthly meal.