The Community Food Stop
Set up in 2016, the Community Food Stop is a café selling healthy, wholesome food. It is based within Bonar Bridge Community Hall, every Monday between 12 and 2pm. The aim is to make nutritious food available to all, not just those who can afford it. Everyone is welcome at the café, as the focus is also on social inclusion. This means that those who normally have to eat alone, can come along to the café and eat with others and perhaps make new friends. Payment is voluntary in the form of a donation.
Occasionally throughout the year we hold weekend events, such as ‘The Big Brunch’ to mark National Poverty Week, and an Afternoon Tea to tie in with the Kyle of Sutherland Gala week.
Through an SCVO and Edinburgh University ‘Food, Poverty and Social Exclusion Research Project’, Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust were able to host Post Graduate Student Lee McNeish while he undertook an eight-week independent research project to look at the impact of the Community Food Stop within the community. Click here to read Lee’s Community Food Stop Report
Please note that this report can not be republished without the prior permission of Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust.
The short film that you can view below shows ‘A day in the life of the Community Food Stop.’
