Ainslie Community Pantry

Another delightfully coloured drop of fresh fruit and veggies to the Inner North Street Pantries, thanks to Box Divvy ACT - Watson - Street ❤️

Ainslie Community Pantry
Braddon Street Pantry
O'Connor Community Pantry
Watson Community Pantry

Location of the Ainslie Community Pantry:
In the disused iconic Canberra bus shelter on Majura Avenue, just off the corner of Officer Crescent, Ainslie.

Google maps link:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

When visiting the Pantry, we ask that you please park in the bus bay opposite, and use the zebra crossing to walk over. Please don't block or park in any neighbours' driveways.

Tomorrow, Thursday 18 July, there will be a Winter Food Drive at Dickson Coles. 3pm to 7pm

We are all coming together to help those who need a hand up this winter.

If you are able, can you please pop one item on our wish list into your trolley, any donations no matter how small make a huge difference to families struggling in our beautiful community.

See you there!

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National Volunteer Week is almost over - but our love for all those who help the Pantries and therefore our community never dies.

We want to send a big shout out to the volunteers who help our pantries EVERY DAY. There are some delightful souls in the community who really go that extra bit, to help check on the pantries, clean up, replenish, fundraise, network to resource the pantries that little bit extra..... and more, every day, every week. To those volunteers we send out a huge and heartfelt THANK YOU.

What you do is so vital to the community and so so so appreciated.

💗💗💗 National Volunteer Week 20-26 May, 2024

To the awesome volunteers who help the Inner North Pantry Network:
Ainslie Community Pantry
Braddon Street Pantry
O'Connor Community Pantry
Watson Community Pantry

Mother's Day is coming soon on Sunday May 12. We have a gift crate set up again, please come and pick up something for your mum or chosen mum.

If you have Mother's Day gifts to share, like candles, soaps, books, lovely scarves, treats, cards, they are so welcome - anything you'd gift a friend, we'd love to receive. ❤️🙏 You are most welcome to come and pop them into the crate.

** Bonus fresh sausage rolls from the Inner North Pantries Network fundraiser this morning. Pop along and grab some for lunch. **

Thanks to Pam's Pantry for the sausage rolls, Danny for an epic cook up and selling at the fundraiser and dropping excess to the pantry.

Thanks to the awesome Chrissy at O'Connor Community Pantry for running the fabulous community fundraisers that help keep the pantries supplied with food. We rely on these for our funding throughout the year.

Huge thank you to our community who drop by to add supplies for neighbours that need a helping hand. It's so wonderful to see food and items that our volunteer team haven't added.

** Please only add in items you'd happily give to a friend, items need to show care rather than 'clear out'. That's community at its best. **
Image: photo shows paper brown bags with 2 Sausage rolls written on the side with grease spots and two Nippy's juice boxes in front of the Ainslie Community Pantry notice.

A sincere thank you to Helping ACT for donating some fresh goodies to the Pantry this afternoon.

Much needed goodies, as the demand is high and donations can't keep up. This is a lovely sight to see, neighbours helping neighbours ❤️

Location of the Ainslie Community Pantry :
In the disused iconic bus stop on Majura Avenue, just down from the corner of Officer Crescent, Ainslie.

Google maps location:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

Can you help us?

The need is high and supplies are needed.

Can you grab an extra packet of pasta, or rice, at your next shop and drop it to the Pantry?

Useful items include:
Pasta
Rice
Sauces
Muesli Bars
2 minute noodles
Canned food (tuna, veggies, soups)
Toilet paper
Soap
Shampoo
Conditioner
Long life milk
Cereal

Where can you donate?
Directly into the drawers of the Pantry in the disused iconic bus stop on Majura Avenue, just down from the corner of Officer Crescent, Ainslie.

If you have larger donations (for example a bag or more), please get in touch and you can drop at one of our volunteers' in Ainslie close to the shops.

If you visit by car, please park in the bus bay opposite and walk across the raised zebra crossing. Please don't park on the verge or block neighbours' driveways. Thank you.

Google maps location:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

Another Box Divvy ACT - Watson - Street fresh fruit and veggie drop earlier today ❤️

Ainslie Community Pantry
O'Connor Community Pantry
Braddon Street Pantry
Watson Community Pantry

Location: the disused iconic Canberra bus stop on Majura Avenue, just down from Officer Crescent, Ainslie.
If you come by car, please don't park on the verge or block neighbours' driveways. There is a bus bay opposite and a raised zebra crossing for easy and safe access.

Google maps location:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

Our Inner North Pantries wouldn't be here without all the women who show love and care for them.

We have Chrissy who started off the Inner North Pantries and runs the O'Connor Community Pantry and the many fabulous, legendary Inner North Pantry network fundraisers.

Amy, Kate, Jaeme, Robbie who look after the Ainslie Community Pantry; Jaeme and Jaci who do our bread runs. And Kate R and Chrissy who do our social media. Anna who champions and collects our redeemables for the ACT Container Deposit Scheme.

Kate W who runs the Braddon Street Pantry.

Kathleen who runs the Watson Community Pantry and delivers our weekly fruit & veg.

Pam at Pam's Pantry who looks after us and keeps us in supplies of all kinds - from toiletries to kids things and more.

Sam at Box Divvy ACT - Watson - Street, who sorts out our fruit & vegetable order.

Greta and Toni at The Gardens at Limestone for the fresh fruit & veg straight from their beautiful gardens.

Our gorgeous pantry fairy who still so generously drops us items and cans.

Our regular donator, Kim.

Women bring the heart to our community pantries and we love and cherish them for it. These women all juggle their work for the community through the pantries with family, jobs, and their own lives - thank you 🙏❤️🙏

Still fresh produce from yesterday's Box Divvy ACT - Watson - Street drop from our volunteers and this evening also some great bread and bread rolls from the Ainslie Bakehouse ❤️

If in need, please drop down and take some - the bread freezes well too!

We aim to give what we can and only take what we need.

If you visit by car, please don't park on the verge or block any neighbouring driveways. Please park in the bus bay area across the road and use the raised zebra crossing to head over and visit the Ainslie Community Pantry .

Thank you so much to our regular volunteers for taking the time to pick up and deliver these, to help our neighbours in need. And thank you to all who donate - as a grassroots Pantry, it can only help neighbours, if others come by and donate food and toiletries.

Hoping everyone has a lovely Canberra Day long weekend.

Location: the disused iconic Canberra bus stop on Majura Avenue, just down from Officer Crescent Ainslie.

Google maps location:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

Our wonderful volunteer Kate discovered a bag of tear and share breads - Hawaiian, BBQ, Margherita - she's beautifully arranged them so they get less squashed. Head on down to grab them whilst they're fresh. School lunches sorted!

Thank you to the mystery donor, please do message the page so we can tell visitors to head down.
Photos of Tear & Share beads fanned out one the orange bench of the bus shelter.

Pantry supporters!

Your 10c cans and container redeemables help us help the community, every week! Help us supply the Inner north pantries with food, fruit & veg.

Thank you to Amy for helping highlight our work, the need for more help, and the awesome help that 10c redeemable donations are. Check out The Riotact article link ❤️

Drop off number:

0432 947 136

Or you can drop to locations:

* O'Connell Street or Stephen Street in Ainslie
* Burt Street in O'Connor
* Higginbotham Street in Watson

Message us for more details.

Ainslie Community Pantry
O'Connor Community Pantry
Braddon Street Pantry
Watson Community Pantry

Thank you!

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Hi Community

We love all donations for our neighbours in need, that's food, fruit, veg, toiletries, nappies, period and incontinence products.

We are too tiny to take a Queen size bed or bike frames. Please gift these in the Buy Nothing Ainslie group or your local Buy Nothing group. We want to make sure that our space remains welcoming and accessible.

We would love it if someone could pick this up, especially if they need one. We have limited capacity to manage removal and processing items that need to be disposed of.

Please help us out and make sure we can stay in this location.

Get in touch if you're able to assist with removal

Thank you!!

Location: the disused bus shelter on Majura Avenue, just down from the corner of Officer Crescent, Ainslie.

Google maps location:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

Image: bed frame, deconstructed, at the Ainslie Community Pantry

What a wonderful donation of fresh fruit and veggies to our Pantry ❤️ a big thanks to Helping ACT for such a generous donation - we know how useful fresh fruit and veggies are for our neighbours in need.

💓 Please only take what you need and give what you can 💓

Location: Majura Avenue in the iconic disused bus stop, just down from the corner of Officer Crescent, Ainslie.

Google maps location:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

If you are visiting by car, we ask that you please park in the bus bay opposite, and use the raised pedestrian crossing, to visit the Pantry. Please don't park on the verge or block any driveways.

Image: two boxes donated to the Ainslie Community Pantry of fresh fruit and vegetables - placed ready for those in need - on the bus stop bench.

Do you have any stationery that's still got lots of life left? Can you donate to the Pantry?

Pens, pencils, sharpeners, markers, rulers, scissors, erasers, paper notebooks.......

School starts back soon and these can be super helpful for neighbours in need ❤️

Please drop straight to the Pantry, if you can.

We ask that you only take what you need, but give what you can.

Any questions? Reach out to the volunteer team via message.

Where is the Pantry?
On Majura Avenue, in an old iconic bus shelter, just down from the corner of Officer Crescent.

Google maps location:
Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

If you do visit with a car, please park in the bus bay opposite and use the raised pedestrian crossing - please don't park on the verge or block neighbouring driveways. Thank you!

We've got another delivery of bread at the pantry today, come and grab some for you, your neighbours and your freezer too (you can defrost and refresh it in the oven whenever you want!). There's more coming later today, and in this heat it's better picked up early before it gets too hot - so take whatever you need! 🥖🍞❤️

Come on down and grab some delicious bread! Still so good to eat (especially in this weather!), but the loaves need to be picked up. We have many baguettes which are perfect for freezing - when you are ready to eat just dampen the loaf, wrap in alfoil (if you like) and refresh in the oven, à la this article: https://www.thekitchn.com/best-method-for-reviving-stale-bread-23499468. Or, freeze slices ready for toasting - or make croutons or breadcrumbs to freeze for cooking! The options are endless, so please help yourself to whatever you would like :)

Happy Birthday to the Ainslie Community Pantry 🥳❤️

This great community resource has been running for THREE years 👏

Thank you to the team of volunteers who have been keeping things going. Thank you to everyone who donates and helps take care of the Pantry.

It has helped so many and will continue to do so - a lovely way to bring the community together ❤️

As a grassroots Pantry, it only functions and helps through regular donations of food, toiletries, baby products and pet food/needs.

Thank you ❤️

Location: the disused bus shelter on Majura Avenue, just down from the corner of Officer Crescent, Ainslie.

Google maps link:Ainslie Community Food Pantry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Y14vmLspQK5WHe96

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

A HUGE thanks and gratitude to Anna for suggesting we collected containers for raising funds for the Ainslie Community Pantry . We've managed to collect over 35,000 (1,000 more than when Anna received her special Thank you tin angel below!)

A reminder: please keep your cans, bottles and containers from your New Year's celebrations and events. We can pick them up or you can drop them to the Vinnie's Express drop in Dickson and use our pantry account number: 0432 647 136. Drop off points in Ainslie are on Stephen Street and O'Connell Street.

We use the funds to buy fresh fruit & veg from the fabulous Sam at Box Divvy ACT - Watson - Street for the four Inner North Pantries - Ainslie Community Pantry , Braddon Street Pantry , O'Connor Community Pantry and Watson Community Pantry
Image: colourful tin angel with yellow, pink and red flower pattern and pink bead halo. There is a Thank you card with Thank you and handwritten message: 'We get vital funds Thanks to you ❤️ 34,000 now!

Merry Christmas morning! We hope you have a relaxing and safe day, however you may spend this day.

Our fresh fruit & vegetables this week from Box Divvy were covered by the sale of our fabulous fundraising teacher gifts (the gorgeous upcycled Tin Angels), which were given with donations in the names of Mrs Brill and Laura Egan-Burt. With these donations, we were able to cover delicious wholesome food for the Ainslie, Braddon, O'Connor and Watson pantries. We were delighted to be able to cover the costs of the fresh produce this week as currently our collection funds from the recycling of redeemable cans and bottles through the ACT Container Deposit Scheme aren't enough. We always think it's worth getting fresh produce for our Pantries as we know our visitors really love it - fresh produce is so important for everybody, and can be so out of reach for some.

Thank you for giving gifts with a heart, especially at this time of year when we are pulled in so many directions at once. Supporting our local community is so rewarding ❤️❤️

Our thanks to Mohammed at Helping ACT for the fruit & vegetables for the Inner North Pantries Network. As always, a massive thank you to the support from wonderful Pam from Pam's Pantry, who collected and delivered these donations to the Ainslie and Inner North Pantries Coordinator, to share across Ainslie, Braddon Street Pantry, O'Connor Community Pantry and Watson Community Pantry.

Coordinating, storing and distributing donated items across the pantries wouldn't happen without the efforts of our volunteers: without which none of these community-supporting resources would exist.

Thank you to all involved and all who donate to the pantries ❤️🙏

Pantry supporters!

As the festive season approaches with parties, and celebrations at work and home - please give a thought to saving redeemable bottles, cans and tetra/cardboard containers for the Inner North Community Pantries ( Ainslie Community Pantry , Braddon Street Pantry , O'Connor Community Pantry and Watson Community Pantry ).

As you get into the Christmas Spirit - if it's a 10c one - we'd love your redeemables. Help us supply the pantries with food, fruit & veg and have fun whilst doing it!

Drop off number:

0432 947 136

Or you can drop to locations:

* O'Connell Street or Stephen Street in Ainslie
* Burt Street in O'Connor
* Higginbotham Street in Watson

Message us for more details.

Thank you!

❤️ GIFTS WITH HEART ❤️

Are you looking for a teacher gift, Secret Santa, Stocking filler, gift for yourself or for someone else?

We have magical up-cycled tin angels (one for $2 or three for $5, or make a donation in someone's name to the pantry and get a thank you card with your angel/s) and the classic pantry mugs ($25), water bottles ($20).

All funds raised go to keeping the pantry supplied with food and toiletries. Help us to keep the pantry running so we can keep helping our community in tough times.

Check out the other angels by clicking the View Shop Button at the top of our page.

Pick up is by Ainslie shops.
Images:
Upcyled tin angels - check out other ones in the shop

Community is the heart of the Pantry. We rely on our neighbours to keep the pantry running and well cared for.

We know the cost of living pressures mean we're seeing more visitors to the pantry. It also means we are receiving fewer donations. We exist week to week and hope that a new source of funding shows up to keep the drawers supplied.

We are so grateful to the following special people that make our lives easier:

• Naomi for the generous donation that our bank account gratefully welcomed

• Roseanne for choosing to support the Inner North Pantries as her leaving gift - such kindness and generosity for the community

• Tracey and her daughter who did a bulk shop and brought weekend cheer to the pantry a few weekends back

The community pantry is a symbol of care, acts of kindness and paying forward when we can. Thank you to those that can on behalf of those that can't. You are making an unbelievable difference and making our volunteers lives easier.

We're in this together.

Image: a collage of 4 photos of inside the Ainslie Pantry bus stop shelter, with various donations received for our neighbours in need.

Evie raised $100 at the North Ainslie Primary School Green Halloween and brought supplies for the Ainslie Community Pantry. Evie wanted to sponsor this week's fruit & veg drop for the Inner North Pantries Network.

Thank you Evie!!

So much thanks to James of Cedar Husk Bakery for the generous offer of pastries today, all distributed amongst the Inner North Pantries: Ainslie Community Pantry, Braddon Street Pantry, O'Connor Community Pantry, Watson Community Pantry.

Nothing warms the heart more than such kind and thoughtful donations to the community, everybody needs a delicious pastry in their life!!!

*Volunteering ACT Canberra's Choice Awards 2023*

Amongst all the examples of wonderful community spirit, please consider casting a vote for our network. It's fabulous to recognise our hardworking volunteers for the work they do. The Inner North Pantries Network volunteers are rare unicorns and so committed to keeping our pantries going even when times are tough. All our volunteers juggle work, family and life commitments, and still fit in helping run the Pantries.

We are all so grateful that our neighbours have embraced community looking after community, and help us keep the pantries in Ainslie, Braddon, O'Connor, Watson, cared for and replenished. It's hard, unrelenting work and often thankless. We couldn't do it without you and we couldn't do it without our special volunteers. We're so lucky to have every one of you. We already have a winning team.

2023 Canberra's Choice Award The Volunteering Awards are the premier recognition event for volunteers in the Canberra region, acknowledging and celebrating volunteers and all the ongoing contributions volunteers make to the Canberra community. Canberra's Choice Award allows members of the public to vote on all nominees put forw...