Our Place
Community Cupboard OPEN TO ALL!
We have now opened our newly named Community Cupboard which runs every Tuesday at the Veterans Club in Northfleet from 10.30am- 12.30pm.
The Community Cupboard provides help for any community member affected by hardship. You will be able to select up to 5 free brand new items which include clothing, toiletries, homeware, books, gifts, school uniform etc.
Come along! Drop in for a cuppa and a chat to see what's available!
Thank you to our 2023-2024 Community Cupboard Supporters:
The Philip and Connie Phillips Foundation
Involve
Northfleet Central
"Our Place" not only offers the Community Cupboard
it also offers Members of the community a place to come along and pop in for a
Coffee, light refreshments at a fair price and a Chat
Our Place drop in runs along side Community Cupboard and Pre-loved table top sale where items
start from 50p
Items are also available for members of the community in need for free at anytime
We are also able to supply gifts to the Confident Children Kids Clubs and CVS Xmas Party.
Other activities run in this project are:
• Quiz afternoons
• Outings – we have visited the National History Museum and Teapot Island#
• Workshops – Rock Painting, Flower arranging, Arts and Crafts
• Kids Club
These are subsidised by our Grants or are offered free.
Working in partnership is a powerful way to achieve more. We are working in partnership with Giving World.
Giving World partners with businesses and charities to redistribute end-of-line, surplus and discontinued products for free, to the most deprived communities across the UK.
Through a network of partners, these surplus supplies are given for free to the most vulnerable in our communities: toys, warm winter clothing, toiletries, and basic household products plus lots more. These brand new, unopened items may otherwise be sent to landfill.
It is impossible to overstate the impact the goods have for beneficiaries. Powerful stories of making low incomes stretch; preventing debt and high-risk loans by providing household essentials like toiletries and cleaning products; preventing social isolation with new clothes and shampoo.
Giving world were very impressed with what we run that they came down to visit us last year to film what when on and interviewed some the of the local residents who are beneficiaries of the project.
None of the other areas they are involved in run a Swap Shop. Giving World thought this was brilliant idea and they said it would be great if we could run more of these in our other areas of
NWK ie, Dartford and Swanley. We explained that we could if funding was available.
The film is to be used to show Business sponsors how important their donations can mean to a community and to show other partners what can be achieved. We may be invited to visit others to tell them about our project.
We signed up to Giving World a few years ago when the project started, and other groups are welcome to join what is called the Cluster to receive goods. By being on the same Cluster all the deliveries would come to us via Pallet Delivery as usual for which we have to pay for.
However, by sharing within the Cluster the pallet delivery cost is shared.
If your interested in joining the cluster please speak to us
