The Unity Free Food Market

15/06/2018

UFFM Need your help!!

We potentially only have 2 people running tomorrow's market!

Can anyone come help out at Borderlands Charity between 2 and 4.30?

05/04/2018

The National Education Union has published research stating:

"It found schools were increasingly stepping in to fill the poverty gap, with almost half of the 900 respondents saying their school offered one or more anti-poverty services such as a food bank, clothes bank or even offering emergency loans to families."

"We call it survival," head teachers say as they describe how poverty-hit pupils are forced to take food.

14/03/2018

What an amazing idea!

10/03/2018

TODAY FROM 2.45pm:

After a change in circumstances, the Market has decided to change from weekly to fortnightly. We had our first non-market week last week (just in time for the snow) and we are back in business today!

Are you experiencing difficulty sourcing fresh, nourishing fruit and vegetables? Then come and join us at Borderlands Charity TODAY 2.45-4.30 and help yourselves to enough fresh food for you and your household, all absolutely free!

Word on the street is that we may have found over 100 fresh eggs!!!!!!

One love,

Unity Free Food Market

27/02/2018

Our sister project is heading off to refugee camps in Northern France on the 18th March, taking music, art, tea and good vibes to displaced people living there. Please if you have any musical instruments in a working order that aren't used anymore send them an email or Facebook message and they'll gladly take them off your hands!

Our have been rolling in, but we still need more! Word is in that there are lots of people keen to learn . Do you have a guitar (or any working instrument) you don't use anymore and are based in Bristol please get in touch with us at [email protected]

24/02/2018

Yo yo people is anyone able to pick up a load of bread for us at 4.40 sharp?? Our baker chucks out at 4.45 so need to be on it! Pm us pleeeeease x

23/02/2018

I need of some extra hands again this week? Could it be you? Get in touch!!

18/02/2018

Thank you Bristol tat collective for donating food to us!

16/02/2018

Not only does our project re-distribute food to people who need it and give families in Bristol healthy and nourishing meals through the week, but we are also saving this food from landfills where it's carbon footprint is unnecessarily harmful to the environment. We need more initiatives like these! And don't forget that the market is on today from 2.30-4.30 at the Assisi Centre/Borderlands

15/02/2018

HELP NEEDED

The pace is picking up and word is getting out to people to be prompt at the beginning of our Saturday Free Food Market. The space we use is occupied until 2:15 and we commence at 2:30 (ish) this leaves us 15 min to assemble a presentable market environment for our patiently waiting customers.

We need some extra hands!!

The set up:

2pm Arrive to empty veg from van, wash muddy veg etc

2:15pm set up space arrange food, bags tea station.

2:30 facililate a calm and smooth running market environment, socialise with customers, ensure everyone is talking a fair amount.

3pm-4:30pm welcome further customers, offering tea and a friendly atmosphere

4:30pm pack away surplus veg if any (hopefully not) clean and clear away tables, sweep floor

5pm GROUP HUG, WE DID IT! Pub?

Does this sound like something you'd want to do? Please let us know! The help is only really essential for the initial rush if you can only commit to around 3pm. The rest is chill time cups of tea and nice company!!

14/02/2018

Does anyone have a small mountain of old plastic bags that they have sitting at home?? We tried paper bags but... wet weather + heavy butternut squash + other weighty veg = bag breakage = unhelpful carrying medium. Many people bring heavy duty bag for life and they blooming well fill'em! Yeah so bags please...

10/02/2018

Unacceptable lack of duty and care. If our government fails us, it is up to us to provide for each other with creative, community-lead solutions in the meantime.

"The number of refugees and asylum seekers living in food poverty has soared by 20 per cent in a year, as thousands are left destitute even after being granted protection in the UK, The Independent can reveal."

The number of refugees and asylum seekers living in food poverty has soared by 20 per cent in a year, as thousands are left destitute even after being granted protection in the UK, The Independent can reveal.