The food larder, hosted in the library by Sue Lee and all the other librarians, is run by members of Sustainable Crediton and, at the Green Fair held in the Square on Saturday 23rd September, we ran a soup and cake kitchen and a stall of surplus food items. We raised £268.42 in donations - thank you - and we would like our donors and contributors to know that the money will go towards us buying even more good quality surplus food from FareShare for the larder. Since they guarantee us food worth at least 5 times what we pay for it, that represents well over £1,000 worth of food for our town. How amazing is that!

 We work on the premise of 'filling bellies, not bins'! Our overarching aim is to reduce food waste and anyone can take the food, for free and regardless of their circumstances, but townspeople can also donate directly to the food larder. Sadly, we cannot take opened packets of food or food that isn't labelled for allergens, but, if you've got a surplus of pumpkins or apples in your garden, if you're never going to eat that tin of soup or if you're going on holiday and have some left over food, please don't chuck it out, bring it to the library……. someone will use it. 

 We are now firmly into apple season and we tend to get lots of apples at the library larder.  If you donate a load, we suggest you take a photo and advertise it on the Crediton Community Facebook page. Our volunteer, Josh Bailey-Brown, manages that site and will give the posting prominence.

 We'd love more volunteers to help collect food as we still have a couple of local shops we currently can't collect from.  It involves getting an occasional text to ask if you can collect (you don't have to say yes) and then collecting and dropping off at the library.  Contact Alison Orchard if you think you could help.

Alison Orchard