- 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: Our philosophy
Save our venues
As we spend this week dismantling the arts and performance venue we worked so hard to create over 15 years, we decided to remove our sign last night. Why did we go to the trouble of doing this and not … Continue reading
On our last day at Above Bar – a cautionary poem
It’s sad seeing that we’re not the only place having our last day open today. These are hard times for little places. I felt compelled to write this cautionary poem.. Don’t just sit at home and thinkHow nice indie places … Continue reading
It may all be relative, but facts are facts.
I was just listening to some old recordings of some lectures on relativity, like you do, and realising the reason it can be hard to understand this fairly simple idea, is that it isn’t common sense. It’s ALL about frames … Continue reading
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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
Tales of the Pantry – A rich life that took a turn
One thing about running our pantry is that many users want, for a host of reasons, to stay anonymous. This can make it hard to share their stories with you, our supporters, to show just what a difference the project … Continue reading
The Wheel of Kindness – paying it forward
Paying it forward – our wheel of kindness and what it means. We’re so pleased that our ‘Wheel on Kindness’ is now in regular use. Folks dropping in are either paying forward a hot drink or soup for somebody else, … Continue reading
Sharing the simple joy of coffee – with everyone
There’s something beautifully normal, simple, and luxurious at the same time about an excellent cup of coffee. Better yet is the joy of sitting in an inspiring, welcoming space to sip it and pass the time of day. We believe … Continue reading
Covid update Monday 29/1/2022
Covid update: TLDR we won’t be dropping all our measures this week – because we’re still in a pandemic. We’re very glad to see infection rates falling and to have seen lower rates of hospitalisation and death in this latest … Continue reading
Inflation for ordinary people
We just shared this over on Facebook with a text description – adding it here as it’s important info to get out there. Our community pantry might be seen as somewhere that folks who are unhoused use, and yes we … Continue reading
About our Community Pantry
A one minute video introducing you to our Community Pantry and how you can support it. Find out more here