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Alnwick Community Larder shuts down

Published on November 26, 2024 by Katie Roskams

Hi everyone, we've taken the decision to shut down the community larder - it's now a phone box once more. We'd hope to keep it going until after Christmas, but with volunteer ill health added to the mix, it was becoming counterproductive to...

Regular contributors - again!

Published on September 6, 2022 by Katie Roskams

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Regular contributors

Published on August 8, 2022 by Katie Roskams

It may well be the case that you've had your donation refunded this month - please don't worry! We've had an ongoing issue with our fiscal host and in order to switch, the collective's balance has to be at zero. It's easier from an admin pe...

Fiscal host issues

Published on August 1, 2022 by Katie Roskams

Those of you who donate regularly via Open Collective may have encountered some problems this month (if so, we're sorry about that). This is boring but just in the interests of transparency! We're trying to switch fiscal hosts (groups on Op...

Your input needed!

Published on May 2, 2022 by Katie Roskams

We're thinking about moving our of the phone box and building our own, more long-term community cupboard. Do you have ideas, thoughts or feedback that'd help make this happen? Let us know!

Thanks!

Published on December 1, 2021 by Katie Roskams

Thanks for the support lately! We've been seeing a big uptake in demand - whereas during the first two lockdowns, people took out roughly as much as they were putting in, we're now seeing that the larder gets emptied within 12 hours of it b...

Sign and share our petition!

Published on August 13, 2021 by Katie Roskams

https://www.change.org/p/bt-keep-alnwick-community-larder

I am bad at keeping this updated...

Published on March 31, 2021 by Katie Roskams

But we were able to reopen a couple of weeks back! https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/people/alnwick-community-larder-reopens-in-phone-kiosk-after-cctv-coverage-improved-3161489

Larder reopening

Published on March 6, 2021 by Katie Roskams

It's been a busy couple of weeks - an incident of vandalism meant that the larder had to close down: https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/crime/alnwick-food-donations-kiosk-closes-down-after-fruit-used-to-smash-shop-window-3144194?f...

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