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Development Sessions!

Development Sessions!

It’s a wrap !

That’s the first of our development sessions and we are so pleased with the outcome of the two fantastic days!

Thank you to all attendees and most importantly for Wheatley Housing for allowing us to use their lovely space!

Feeding Success Together🤝

Deputy First Minister

Deputy First Minister

As an organisation dedicated to working for Pantries and their communities, we were happy to be able to arrange for Deputy First Minister Shona Robison a visit to one of our members, The Larder in West Lothian. We are pleased that the government is interested in our...

How to save money 2024 !

How to save money 2024 !

Here’s some ways to save !!

1. Did you sign up for a 🆓trial ? keep it 🆓 by remembering to CANCEL❌ and setting an earlier reminder.

2. Don’t be hesitant to bring LEFTOVERS 🥗 into the office; they will save you more money than a meal deal every day!

3. Don’t sleep on debts; if you owe money, make sure to pay it off as quickly as possible so that you can spend and save guilt-free. 🛒🛍

4. Rather than transferring from savings and being surprised when money is taken out, automate the frequent bills such as the phone. 💸💸

5. Before heading out or shopping, see whether there are any available promotional coupons or vouchers. If it’s with family or young person, remind them to bring Young Scot Cards & Student Cards. 🧒🚸

6. Cash makes it easier to budget than online, breaking £20 note is harder than just tapping your card. Take out some cash instead 🏧💳

Our Story

Our Story2018 – Discussions with Glasgow City Council & our partner organisation Fareshare Glasgow & West of Scotland lead to the development of a best practice model , a steering group is formed to establish a pilot in the North East of the city. 2019 – Two...

Scotland’s Annual Homelessness conference

Scotland’s Annual Homelessness conference

We began November by attending Scotland’s Annual Homelessness Conference in Perth, where we were delighted to be among the 250 guests and hear our own Chief Executive Officer, Mandy Morgan, speak. Our first sofa session, “Be More Human,” was both uplifting and entertaining. As much as food may have appeared to be unrelated to the day’s theme, we were pleased to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the two challenges through their mutual demand for you to be more human .

Challenge Poverty Week

Challenge Poverty Week

As part of Challenge Poverty Week we attended an event in Parkhead promoting awareness of the pantry model, Great conversations with pantry members and partners. Strengthened our links with Health Improvement colleagues . Our pantry hubs are good vehicles for delivery of a range of health improvement measures to support our communities

Glasgow Food Summit 2023

Glasgow Food Summit 2023

September 2023 Glasgow Food Summit. A busy day for the team promoting the pantry model at the Glasgow Food Summit hosted in Glasgow City Chambers. Good to share practice from Glasgow , UK and beyond. Our CEO Mandy co presented on the innovative partnership with Thrive Under 5 , Alexandra Rose and the Ruchazie Pantry . A good measure of how far we have come since the last Food Summit in 2019 but also opportunity to reflect on how much we still need to do.

You can now donate through Paypal!

If you have a Paypal account, you can donate by scanning our Paypal account’s QR code. If you do not have a Paypal app, you can also scan the other QR code that will direct you to our main Paypal site to make a donation. Thank you for supporting TSPN. We really appreciate every donation we receive.

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