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Our premises at 17 King Street, Stenhousemuir is a safe space for groups to come together and chat over a cup of tea. 17 King Street offers plenty of on street parking as well as a public car park less than a minutes walk away. We are situated right next to a busy bus route with routes to all over Falkirk available and we are right across from our local taxi office.
Free Wi-Fi is available for everyone who uses the building and we have access to a laptop for anyone who requires an extra bit of help. |
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Community Choices
Our project will not only help tackle food poverty, but we will also offer work experience for our young community. This experience will be coordinated with Larbert high school as well as other local agencies. The experience gained will be mostly hospitality and kitchen work, but other skills can be learned through community volunteering with KLSB.
We follow the Dignity: Ending Hunger Together in Scotland report. This is an independent report which was published by the Scottish government in 2016. The six core messages are:
Our project aims to ensure that people are given the very best of chance to be able to access food in a dignified way. We firmly believe that by simply offering a bag full of groceries to someone in need is not fixing a problem, however, offering a meal, along with a set of instructions on how it was prepared is a far better way of tackling food poverty. During the summer holidays of 2021 we ran a 4 week initiative for our pantry members where we worked together with Forth Valley College and alongside their hospitality team we were able to provide our members with full recipe packs which included instructions, cooking utensils, pots, scales etc, and a full set of ingredients. The feedback that we received was amazing with many saying that they had never cooked a meal from scratch before. We aim to do this again but instead of giving people the packs home, we aim on bringing small groups in to learn in a fully working kitchen. We will then allow the members to take home their meals that they have created. A recent member survey has revealed that 21 of our members would like to participate in a cookery class. To allow us to do this we will develop 10 of our volunteers to help us run the cooking classes as well as our other group initiatives. These volunteers will have the chance to develop their skill and to learn new ones.
This project will bring people together and help improve wellbeing. We will teach people on how to grow sustainable food within our community garden, how to cook healthy, low cost meals, and how to properly batch cook and store meals.
In our first 3 months operation we will bring in a qualified chef who has offered his services to us to help us cut through all regulations on opening a kitchen. This includes advising our projects manager on how to set up and regularly update our HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) book as well as dealing with our local environmental health officer, dealing with licences and insurance forms.
We follow the Dignity: Ending Hunger Together in Scotland report. This is an independent report which was published by the Scottish government in 2016. The six core messages are:
- The biggest problem is having enough money to feed yourself.
- Every response must be dignified.
- Involving people experiencing food insecurity is where we will find the solution.
- Everyone has the right to good quality and nutritious food.
- Food is about community and not just consumption.
- Emergency food aid is not a long-term solution to hunger.
Our project aims to ensure that people are given the very best of chance to be able to access food in a dignified way. We firmly believe that by simply offering a bag full of groceries to someone in need is not fixing a problem, however, offering a meal, along with a set of instructions on how it was prepared is a far better way of tackling food poverty. During the summer holidays of 2021 we ran a 4 week initiative for our pantry members where we worked together with Forth Valley College and alongside their hospitality team we were able to provide our members with full recipe packs which included instructions, cooking utensils, pots, scales etc, and a full set of ingredients. The feedback that we received was amazing with many saying that they had never cooked a meal from scratch before. We aim to do this again but instead of giving people the packs home, we aim on bringing small groups in to learn in a fully working kitchen. We will then allow the members to take home their meals that they have created. A recent member survey has revealed that 21 of our members would like to participate in a cookery class. To allow us to do this we will develop 10 of our volunteers to help us run the cooking classes as well as our other group initiatives. These volunteers will have the chance to develop their skill and to learn new ones.
This project will bring people together and help improve wellbeing. We will teach people on how to grow sustainable food within our community garden, how to cook healthy, low cost meals, and how to properly batch cook and store meals.
In our first 3 months operation we will bring in a qualified chef who has offered his services to us to help us cut through all regulations on opening a kitchen. This includes advising our projects manager on how to set up and regularly update our HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) book as well as dealing with our local environmental health officer, dealing with licences and insurance forms.
