Shouting About Co-op Food Share

Co-op Food Share Letters to Primary Schools

After my meeting last week at the Newton Stewart Co-op and the chat with Sarah and area manager about the Co-op Food Share and how it works, I have been writing letters to all the local primary schools.

It transpires that Newton Stewart Co-op has more fruit and veg that they can not sell than they have community groups to donate it to, so this food is going to waste. At Wigtown the story is much worst, none of the food stuffs are donated because no one has come forward in the community to make use of any of the food in the food share.

It occured to me that if I were to let the local primary schools know of this abundance of food, then maybe the schools could collect the fresh fruit and veg for the childrens mid morning snacks. It would help towards the children getting their 5 a day and it would reinforce the schools messages of healthy living and healthy eating.

So I have found 7 local primary schools (many of the schools in the area share a head teacher so I only wrote to one of the schools under that head) and I have wrote to them to let then know how to claim any food share contributions.

It's not something that will make a massive difference to peoples lives, but all the small things add up.