- 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: Fundraising
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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Pantry update – Friday 26 April ’24
Gill here! Todays pantry we had a lovely selection of goodies saved from supermarket waste. Huge beefsteak tomatoes, lovely ripe bananas, satsumas by the few dozen, swede, butternut squash, a huge variety of breads, cakes and pastries, vegan milk, coconut … Continue reading
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The Shed!
In February, when we were planning ahead to become a pop-up, we asked our community to fund a lockable storage box at Board in the City for our pop-up community pantry which we’ll be holding there every Friday 11am – … 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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Silent Auction!
We are auctioning off some of the artwork around The Art House! You are invited to bid the amount you are willing to pay for an item, and the highest bid wins. You can’t see the other bids, so just … Continue reading
Silent Auction, wrapping the House and wishlist
Three ways to support our community pantry this month…. Mark your calendar for our Silent Auction launch night, with drinks, nibbles, music from Savage Brickwork and a chance to bid on Art House memorabilia! Wednesday 21 Feb, 6.30 – 9pmBook … Continue reading
‘It’s a wrap’ in six weeks for this location …. join the collective
In March 2009 we moved here and you can see what we started with in image one. We made a makeshift sign and moved in! In 2013 we gave the empty building next door a facelift with the ‘Show off … Continue reading
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