UPDATE, MON 20th JULY AT 19:30
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Hi Everybody,
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UPDATE, MON 20th APRIL AT 11:00
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It's fantastic that another large delivery of fruit and veg, milk, bread and eggs arrives tomorrow (Tuesday), financed by some generous cash donations from around the village — for which thank you! We try, too, to pick up anything lacking in our own shops — for example, with random success(!), flour and tinned tomatoes — so please tell us if you are having trouble sourcing items, and we will do our best to add that to our stock.
Best wishes, Sarah
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UPDATE, FRI 3rd APRIL AT 14:10
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Having seen people's kind of patterns in these past weeks, and spoken to families who have been using regularly, we think Tuesday and Thursday would provide an efficient service for people. If needed, we are still delivering bits and bobs anyway, so we'll try that for a bit and see. We can always get things to people on different days if needed.
Best wishes, Sarah
If you are short of anything, have supplies to offer or otherwise want to contact the Village Larder,
please ring Snape Good Neighbour Scheme on ☏ 0754 1754 426,
or during VILLAGE LARDER OPENING HOURS (11-12 Tuesdays and Thursdays ONLY) ON ☏ 01728 688 373.
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UPDATE, MON 30th AT 19:45
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We had a very generous lot of stock from the Maltings today, with some very high class biscuits and chocs alongside our tins of spaghetti hoops!
The Village Larder is for Snape Primary school families — AND Snape villagers and their families. Please do come and take what you need. We have a number of very generous donations from some very kind folk and this means we can run with plenty of stock for YOU. Please don't be shy about coming to take something you need. If you do have something to add that's lovely but if you don't — that's fine too. We are aware of families in need, and we are making up food boxes from the stock too — so you don't need to worry about that. It's going round very nicely, and families are really really grateful... so are we all. THANK YOU
Best wishes, Sarah
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UPDATE, THU 26th AT 21:10
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Hello all, We still have plenty of toilet paper, pasta, some bread, veg, tinned tomatoes, tomato sauce, little tins, baby wipes, nappies, coffee, biscuits and crisps... for YOU to swap, take, add to... it's for YOU ALL!
Best wishes, Sarah
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UPDATE, TUE 24th AT 8pm
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Good evening everybody,
Thank you for all your support and encouragement. I hope you've managed to get some sunshine today.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) we've got some little pears, a couple of bags of pasta, tomato puree, some tins, lots of onions, some potatoes, packet rice, eggs and LOTS of large toilet rolls — the ones you put in public toilets... they're not bad quality, don't ask!!
Thanks to some lovely villagers, families also went away with well-stocked boxes to suit their dietary needs and they were really grateful.
It's such a big car park, we are well able to keep our social distance and can see, anyway, from the gate whether it would be classed as a social gathering — but it was just the person and me today anyway.
I think it's a community need, BUT either way it is SAFE. It also means I can man the phones and make some calls in the middle of the day in school too.
Best wishes, Sarah
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MONDAY, 23rd MARCH
Hi everyone,
We've had some very sensible decision-making from our parents and all are keeping their children away — especially the nurses’ children. So at the moment we have no children in, and therefore school is closed. However, we would like to make phone calls, as we have vulnerable children and we want to support the wellbeing of families. Therefore, we're hoping to have one of us at a social distance outside the front door to man our "Village Larder" from 11 until 12 weekdays initially, but we’ll see.
Thanks to some lovely donations from some very kind villagers we have tins, eggs, cereal, bread, pasta, etc for people to get. The idea is give/take or just give or just take, but it is also to help with the sourcing of some things like toilet rolls that people actually might have the money for but they can't get! We thought if we messaged and put word out we might be able to pass those to people who need things. Also, I can message if we have a glut of anything — for example, I have three bags of little pears tomorrow! I’ve used some of the donation to make up a couple of food boxes.
The idea for the Village Larder came, first, from being in school, but it is for the village — it’s just I happen to know that lots of our families are self-employed and are now having to apply for Universal Credit.
I hope that fully explains what we're doing from the school end. The Village Larder is safe outside, at a social distance and there are no children in school. I’ll pop leftovers inside school at twelve.
Best wishes and keep well,
Sarah
Also, please click here to visit Snape Village's «Businesses' Offerings» page
to see other initiatives that have been started in and around the village.