Peterborough Soup Kitchen, UK

PLEASE SHARE: There have been ongoing discussions throughout the day as to whether we should continue with tonight’s service. In light of new information the Trustees have taken the difficult decision to close tonight and not offer a service.

PLEASE SHARE: Whilst we have every intention of providing a service to our Clients this evening please do be aware that in the event of any safety concerns the team may decide to cancel at the last minute. We will keep you updated!

Our monthly newsletter ❤️

Thank you so much to this lovely gentleman Pete who was waiting for some Customers to arrive back to his bus, saw what we do and donated £20! Amazing ❤️

Busy service today serving Mediterranean Vegetable pasta, apple crumble & custard for pudding and some amazing cornflake cakes made by our lovely Team Leader Lewis! ❤️

Lovely Team 12 serving now soup, sandwiches, drinks, crisps, homemade fruit cake and pork pies!! 😋❤️

Thank you very much for an amazing donation of £250 from Direct Line Group Autoservices ❤️

Thanks goes once again to David Packer from the Phoenix group who used his volunteering day to help out. This time he helped collect soup which is donated by our good friends at Bakkavor ❤️

Team 2 on their way to serve some tasty soup and sandwiches. Thank you ❤️ Volunteers' Week

It’s Volunteers' Week 2024! Thank you so much to ALL our volunteers for your time, energy, kindness and compassion ❤️ thank you also to GPPrint for your continued support!

Lovely Team 28 will be serving “Sean’s Italian Meatballs” in a tomato sauce with rice, with crumble and custard for dessert at 12pm ❤️ Thank you!!

Thanks once again to members of Deeping Tennis Club for helping out with a recent evening service. Your support is always appreciated ❤️

A huge shout out to Jean & Cheryl Royal Mail (Peterborough Mail Centre) for raising us another huge amount of £522 by holding a raffle. Our thanks also to all the local Companies who donated prizes to help them (please see comments)! Amazing efforts, we can’t thank you enough ❤️

Thank you so much to Mathew Burkitt who dropped off a donation to us today of £50 ❤️ Mathew wanted to thank us as we provided food to him many times in the past. Now he is back on his feet and doing well 😊 such a lovely heartwarming story ❤️

Thank you to Gurmaire from Greenwoods Legal LLP for the wonderful fresh strawberry cake made for our clients ❤️

Picked up some orders today from our very generous friends at GPPrint, we really do appreciate all that you do for us ❤️ but special thanks for the hamper celebrating your 25 years! We will share this with our Clients & Volunteers. Congratulations 🎉

Was our absolute pleasure to be joined at service today with Handonheartwwp who are a lovely Charity who gave out rucksacks, toiletries and clothing to our Clients today ❤️ also thanks to Grasmere Farm for the tasty sausages!

With the help from the Lottery Grant, we are in the process of improving our sustainability by looking to digitalise several of our processes. To help with this, we are very grateful to the volunteers who spent this weekend decorating our smallest room, transforming it into an office, and for all the donated furniture ❤️

Tesco Bourne have donated our Christmas lunch products for the last two years. Here, Viv, Ellen & Scott are helping out with tonight's service. Many thanks for your continued support ❤️

Our sincere gratitude to Fitzwilliam Hospital for offering their surplus sliced bread to us. Thank you for thinking of us ❤️

Lovely Team 27 serving now! Pukka Pies and an amazing peach cake ❤️

Happy Easter 🐣 ❤️

Thank you to our lovely baker who has made this fantastic mandarin sponge which will be served tomorrow ❤️ our Clients will love this!

Thanks once again to the pupils of The Peterborough School for donating cakes from their cake morning. Georgie and her team have been brilliant to us all year. They are off to their relevant Universities next year so we wish them all the very best of luck ❤️

Huge shout out to Team 3 who are serving now; our lovely volunteers from the Peterborough Cathedral. They also bring in their own donations to give to our Clients ❤️

A huge thank you to Jay & Marleigh for donating all this to us today! Jay went for a run every day in February and collected items from the shops on his way back. Absolutely amazing ❤️