- Urban Wild on the Common 2026
- Punk Poetry, Protest & Pantry news (August newsletter & Autumn what’s on)
- A Warm Welcome at Bitterne Station – Our First Friday Pantry at our new home!
- The Art House pop-up pantry at Bitterne Station open day!
- Event announcement: Valentine Noire with Jason Buck
- Gig Announcement: Grant Sharkey’s 24th Album Launch
- Bunkerfest 2024 Recap – a community effort that raised over £1200!
- Special guest for this month’s Moving Voices
Category Archives: Food
A Warm Welcome at Bitterne Station – Our First Friday Pantry at our new home!
On Friday, we opened the doors to our very first Community Pantry at Bitterne Station Hub – and what a heartwarming start it was. After a year of popping up at Board in the City CIC, we made the decision … Continue reading
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Bunkerfest 2024 Recap – a community effort that raised over £1200!
Bunkerfest 2024 was a huge success, raising over £1200 for the Community Pantry – and we couldn’t have done it without you! The money raised (after event costs have been taken out) will go to funding our regular pop-up pantry … Continue reading
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Kindness is a blessing – update from Gill (and Speedy)
Gill here with a report on Friday’s pantry – with gratitude to donors and volunteers. Today’s offerings included giant peppers, chocolate biscuits, and soup. Volunteers Ziggy, Abby, and others helped distribute groceries, and new visitors were welcomed. Appreciation was extended to Board in the City CIC for their work. The pantry welcomes visitors next week from 11am to 1pm. Continue reading
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Event Announcement: SoGreenFest! 1 June 2024
This event was ACE and Fossilheads are up for doing it again so watch this space for SoGreenFest 2025 BUNKER178 are delighted to announce the first SoGreenFest – a gathering of likeminded local people to network, share information, enjoy food … Continue reading
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First pop-up pantry at Board in the City
Our first pop up pantry at Board in the City CIC was lovely, we had SO much food from The Big Difference and Co-op! Thank you Board in the City team for making us feel really at home. Nic and … Continue reading
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Uh-oh! We ran out of paid forward drinks and soups!
January is often said to be 1000 days long and, even being less dramatic, this was a long month for our community pantry. The Pantry opened 11 times in January, and had around 200 visits from people accessing food, toiletries … Continue reading
Good news for our pantry – and some bad news
First of all the good news! Our friends at Board in the City CIC have agreed that we can host our community pantry there from April! This means we can continue this vital project after we leave our current premises. … Continue reading
We had a glitch in our payment system – can you help us catch up?
Thanks so much if you tried to donate last time we sent this email and apologies if you had issues – our payment account and Buy me a Coffee account had a falling out! We are assured it is all … Continue reading
Help us to rescue food from the bin!
Every week, we collect surplus food from a local food waste charity and local co-ops for our community pantry and redistribute the food. We love taking perfectly good, nutritious food that would become waste and sharing it, or making it … Continue reading
A Day in the Life of the Pantry
Pantry update du jour! Busy day today with lots of people in for hot drinks and groceries. Gill was poorly and Zigz had a medical appointment (not rona, not serious) so Graham held the fort with volunteers Simone & David. … Continue reading →