News Updates

We had a lovely time with you all and we hope you enjoyed yourselves! A big thanks to our staff and volunteers who work so hard preparing everything! We enjoyed, sweet potato soup or a lovely jacket potato with toppings. Including this delicious homemade strawberry and vanilla cheesecake

Please come and collect as soon as possible. All kept in our community cupboard on the grass in front of our community centre

Carrots, potatoes, courgettes, runner beans, asparagus, bread, apples, cherries, pears, lemons come and just take what you need

We are lucky to be working with FareShare who are helping to reduce food waste. This means, when we can, we are able to pick up food donations. We also receive food donations from local people, businesses and other voluntary organisations throughout the year.

We want to make sure that you have access to this food and therefore we have installed a community food cupboard outside the community centre.

It is back to back with our noticeboard on the grass and we have created shelves for various purposes (use by food, best before dates, long life etc.)

At the moment it isn’t fully up and running but there are some pancakes in there if you would like to come by and pick some up. Please help yourselves.

Please note the following:

Use by food: After the use-by date, don’t eat, cook or freeze your food. The food could be unsafe to eat or drink, even if it has been stored correctly and looks and smells fine.

Best Before: The best before date, sometimes shown as BBE (best before end), is about quality and not safety. The food will be safe to eat after this date but may not be at its best. Its flavour and texture might not be as good.

Please always check the dates on food in the cupboard, only take what you need and speak to a member of staff if you wish to donate to it.

We will always post to Facebook when the cupboard has been stocked.

A big thank you to Lee for all his help with setting up the crowd funder – something very new to us so we are really grateful for all your help

The cheque will be paid in this week and then with the fantastic support of Ainsdale Area Committee who have contributed the rest of the funds we will be able to purchase the Defibrillator that we hope to never need

This fundraiser has put us in touch with some incredible people and charities. One of those is The Lions Shop in Ainsdale who have been an incredible help. They came in to chat to us and have generously donated some funds for us to provide some First Aid courses for our volunteers and local people – keep your eyes peeled for the dates once we advertise (dates TBA). So another HUGE thank you goes to them!

We served lots of sandwiches, nibbles and cakes and had hot chocolates with cream and marshmallows in our teacups!

Everyone got involved in playing Jubilee Bingo, pin the crown on the Corgi and helped to colour in our cake toppers for our older members afternoon lunch which is tomorrow

This morning we made Origami Corgi’s with Origami expert Zulay Sayalero. It was so much fun and really relaxing!