Benefits of Volunteering at Hangar Community Hub

March 15, 2023By 0 comment

This is one of our volunteers Emma, who is a local resident to the area, and we met her via our food network.  You’ll catch Emma most Thursdays working at the morning Pantry, plus she is often to be found helping behind the scenes including collecting and transporting food to us, and restocking the Pantry.

And this is Sue, another of our amazing volunteers who often helps at both Sunday and Thursday pantries and behind-the-scenes including restocking and carrying out food collections.

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Best-Before and Use-By Dates

May 13, 2022By 0 comment

It is important to understand ‘best before’ and ‘use-by’ dates on food labels and how you must treat them differently.

The Best Before date, sometimes shown as BBE (best before end), is about quality and not safety.  Other foods have a Use By date.  That food either needs to be eaten before that date, or frozen if it’s freezable (we save whatever we can when we receive this kind of food).

After the Best Before date listed on a product, the food will be safe to eat but may not be at its best. Best Before dates appear on a wide range of foods including:

  • frozen foods (such as peas, chips and ice cream)
  • dried foods (such as pasta and rice)
  • tinned foods (such as baked beans and canned tomatoes)
  • cheese

Please read this information in full to ensure you’re up to date with the latest safety guides.

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Hangar Hub Food Pantry

October 3, 2017By 11 Comments

We work with food charity Fareshare Cymru – plus numerous local retailers – on a food project that is here to help the local Community.

Anyone can access our food pantry. Whether you are a family, or low income household. You may be a working family, but the paycheque is just disappearing too fast, especially with the Cost of Living Crisis and the Pantry will help you top-up your fridge and cupboards.

Or, you may just wish to join as a member to support the project and save tonnes of food waste.

Whatever your reason…

Some of our wonderful volunteersThe Pantry aims to:

  • Provide volunteering opportunities for our community
  • Donate free food packages to those who need it
  • Provide a donation option where you can just give a small membership fee donation when you collect a food package. We don’t sell individual items of food but we supply boxes of mixed chilled, frozen, ambient and fresh food depending on what is available
  • Supply food suitable for varied dietary needs and cultural needs
  • Donations help us to purchase and run fridges, freezers, top up the pantry items with essentials, pay our food membership subscription fees and more

 

If you are a new member and wish to join our Pantry, please register here. It is a bit like placing an order online, but you will pay in person when you collect your box.

Pantry days are Thursday and Sunday 11am-1pm.  No appointment is needed.

We have random pop-up pantries by appointment which are announced on our Facebook Group

 

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