SHARE Wokingham
We are a Christian based community food project helping reduce food waste to support the community.
28/08/2024
SHARE are taking part in the very first WWokingham Lions Clubswimathon on the 6th September!
The team are raising funds for some extra fridges for our other locations so any donations are very gratefully received!
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08/08/2024
Across the Share sites we have a small army of volunteers who we are incredibly grateful to for their commitment and resilience! Today we celebrated a very special birthday for one such volunteer! Many thanks to COOK for their lasagnes which were part of the 80th birthday celebrations for a very special volunteer John Pape!
Many happy returns John and thank you for all you do for us!
06/08/2024
We had a great meal at Foodshare at Wycliffe tonight. Highly recommend if you want to pop along for delicious food and great company!
We are excited to announce that Junction Kitchen will run over the summer break
An opportunity to eat with others and try food from a different Country
Pay as you Can - we do not want cost to stop anyone sharing a meal
Look forward to welcoming you
02/08/2024
At Norreys today we will have the Community Wellness Check team with us to check your blood pressure, BMI and general health.
Today also sees the start of the Share Summer Lunch for any children who come along to Share you can have a free sandwich and a drink!
Look forward to seeing you at 12.30!
01/08/2024
Sometimes it is easy to forget that Share is a food waste charity and we work solely with donations from local suppliers and stores collecting their end of day and surplus stocks.
This does mean that the volume of our supply fluctuates- this is great for the suppliers as they have less food waste but for those that come to our sites it does mean there may not be the same array of choice and quantity we have at other times.
This week is one of those weeks SO we kindly ask if you are purely attending Share to help reduce food waste then please come towards the end of the session.
If you have already visited a Share site this week, we would prefer you did not attend a second site when we are at low stock levels, those that do attend a second site will be asked to wait until others have made their selection.
We really appreciate your understanding and co-operation with this.
We love the team Sedero Lounge who are great at supporting local groups and charities!
These pancakes were just as good as they look!
30/07/2024
Many thanks to Freely Fruity for their ongoing support! Great to catch up with Matt today!
23/07/2024
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18/07/2024
Following on from the inspiration of The Long Table, the team Foodshare at Wycliffe are starting the below!
It is a pay as you can project and depending on the success will also depend on how long it can carry on for!!
We are excited to announce that Junction Kitchen will run over the summer break
An opportunity to eat with others and try food from a different Country
Pay as you Can - we do not want cost to stop anyone sharing a meal
Look forward to welcoming you
18/07/2024
Just a heads up that we have received notification that Norreys Avenue will be closed on the 19th July therefore anyone attending will need to park at Sainsbury’s on Ashridge Road or elsewhere and walk to Norreys Church.
The situation may change but we wanted to give advance notice!
16/07/2024
This is happening at Norreys this coming Saturday!
Date for your diary!! After the success of the last couple of Saturday breakfasts we have a date for the next one! 20th July! Come along and bring a friend too!
05/07/2024
Delighted to announce the opening of our latest site is at Brookside Church, Earley this coming Wednesday! Details below !
04/07/2024
This great event is happening tomorrow evening Friday 5th July. If you are interested in attending let us know as we have some available tickets!
Great time this evening with St Sebastian Wokingham Band performing at All Saints Church. Thank you to all who came along and supported the band and especially those that kindly donated to us!
21/06/2024
The Grub Club are hosting their activity sessions over the summer holidays every Tuesday at St Crispins.
If you are interested get in touch with them directly - details below.
Hi Grub Club families, summer is finally here! There's no going back now 🌞 We are looking forward to welcoming you again for some great activities for the kids and a chance to chat and eat together. We are running over 4 Tuesdays, with a trip to Ozone in Bracknell for some ice skating on the last week. More about that later. If you would like to sign up, please message us or email [email protected] and someone will be in touch. If you've not been with us before we will need to send you a registration form.
15/06/2024
Come down to Bearwood Recreation Ground for the Winnersh Parish Council fete today until 4pm.
Lots of fun and free games..in between the showers!!!
12/06/2024
Busy June for the Share team! We are out again this Saturday with lots of free fun games! See you in Winnersh this Saturday!
We have some fantastic raffle prizes for this years raffle at Winnersh Summer Fete!
With thanks to everyone who has donated a prize this year!
All proceeds form the raffle will go to our chosen charities, which this year is SHARE Wokingham and Reading Family Aid
10/06/2024
Volunteer week has just finished and - some would say as usual! - we are a bit late in commenting on it!!
Share is a 100% volunteer charity, across our 15 sites it takes a group of almost 300 people to collect, sort, set up and distribute the food we have to over 700 households (that can be up to 2000 people every week!)
Simply put we would not operate without the time and effort the team put into it so from the bottom of our hearts we want to say a huge thank you!!
08/06/2024
Great day today at the Woodley Carnival! Thank you to all the volunteers who helped (on a Saturday!!) and also to the new mayor for Woodley Town Council, Juliet Anderson, for selecting us as her charity of the year!
We are really delighted to support the Woodley community and thoroughly enjoyed the day…including the axe throwing and the friendly dinosaurs!!
08/06/2024
Come along to the Woodley Carnival today and see us! Lots of fun free games!!
07/06/2024
A big thank you to Wokingham Lions Club for all they do for the whole Wokingham community as well as for Share. A great afternoon was had celebrating 50 years of the club today at Wokingham Town Hall.
Our great friend and trustee Gerald De La Pascua was awarded the Gerry Agggett award for outstanding service & contribution to the local community. Thank you Gez for all you do for so many.
07/06/2024
We are delighted to announce that we have also been chosen as charity of the year for the Woodley Town Mayor too!
As the chosen charity we are attending the incredible Woodley carnival tomorrow with lots of fun games! Pop along and say hi!!
05/06/2024
This is happening this week! Sign up if you are interested !
WFH - Meet and Eat
📆This Friday 7th June
⏱Anytime between 12.15pm and 2pm
⛪️Corpus Christi Church on Sturges Road
If you work from home (WFH) you will no doubt appreciate the flexibility it brings but it's also important to take time away from your work. Many people miss the opportunity of a face to face conversation with others as part of their work routine.
This Friday, 7th June, Corpus Christi church on Sturges Road in Wokingham (RG40 2HE) will be hosting a "Meet & Eat" lunch for people who WFH. Hearty soup and bread will be served, or you can bring your own lunch if you prefer. Tea and coffee will be provided. Join anytime between 12 and 2.15pm. Anybody who works from home is very welcome.
Please sign up using👉 https://forms.fillout.com/t/fjqCVsauNGus
This event will run regularly if there is demand.
🚗Limited parking available in front of the church or alternatively at the Cockpit Path Car Park, RG40 2HD
04/06/2024
Really looking forward to this one!
Less than 18 days to our first Summer concert at All Saints Church in Wokingham! We are again supporting Wokingham who will be providing refreshments and we have a fantastic winning programme for you! So get your tickets now by either scanning the QR code on the poster or head to our Events for more details! 🎺
01/06/2024
Thank you to Wokingham Town Council for a great event today at Party in the Park! A great time was had by all!
Thank you also to the Share team for giving up even more time to support the charity!
01/06/2024
This is today! Come and visit our stand and celebrate with us as the Town Mayor’s charity of the year!
TOMORROW‼
We ordered the sun and it's coming 😂
We hope you are too!
We're getting the party started at 3pm with our first act Abba Fever
Timings are:
🎤15:00 – 16:00 – Fever
🎹16:30 – 17:30 – Le Freak
🎤18:00 – 19:00 – Majestix
🎹19:30 – 21:00 – Women in Rock
You can bring a picnic, sample the delicious street food on offer or order from one of our town centre businesses.
Are BSL interpreters will be back with us and we'll have an accessibility platform, as per previous years so that everyone can enjoy the show.
Hue thanks to Yes Events for the delivery 😇
See you there
27/05/2024
Just a reminder that despite the bank holiday the hard working team SHARE Woodley are open today!
Reminder that we are OPEN as normal today …
3.30-4.30 at Emmanuel Church, Southlake Crescent Woodley RG5 3QW
Don’t forget your £1 and your shopping bag, and come and save some food from going to waste
NB The kids drop in will NOT be open I’m afraid
26/05/2024
What an effort from Sarah at Share in Shinfield! Any sponsorship would be amazing!
Time has come! One hour to go... Absolutely bucketing it down... Feeling all the feels...excitement, nerves, 100th toilet break 😂
Hoping I can find the start line 🧐
Any extra pennies to help rebuild our church would be massively appreciated! It's gonna be a slog! 😂🙏
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rebuild-our-community-church
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.
Where did we come from?
At the start of the Covid 19 situation the Grub Club team were approached to offer their expertise in the area of food supply to families in Wokingham – conversations were had and meetings held about who might need help and how we could address it. Due to the ongoing relationship with the Grub Club Team and core members of JAC (Just Around the Corner) we pulled our resources and contacts and were able to access a lot of surplus stock from BRAKES in Reading – stock that, due to the sudden cancellation of orders for the hospitality industry, would otherwise have gone in the bin.
We also reached out to local supermarkets such as Morrisons and Waitrose and through the connections with Wokingham In Need we were also able to access items from Marks and Spencer and Lidl. Cook In Wokingham also got on board with the project and kindly donate 50 ready meals a week during the pandemic. We have received great support from a somewhat unlikely source in Reading Football Club too as well as many other individuals and other contacts. As a result of the partnerships which have been made we have been able to supply food parcels for up to 100 families a week at times, this does not account for the number of people who come to collect food items at the church and these are separate to the Foodbank referrals. The contacts for the food parcels have come through various schools, individuals and other groups. We have also arranged the purchase and packing of around 50 fresh fruit and vegetable parcels for the local food bank each week. Since the start of Covid we have produced over 1500 food parcels between the Wokingham Community Hub, the Foodbank and direct contacts. The majority of the items we have are donated however with the financial donations we receive we are able to put this back into the project and purchase items that we require.
Share- Wokingham has been open daily to anyone who can come along to Norreys Church, offering bakery items and any other surplus food stock we have – there is no charge for this but if people are able to make a donation, however small, it is always appreciated. This means it does not carry the stigma attached to going to the Foodbank as people are not just being able to feed themselves for little to no money but they are also having an environmental impact in tackling the was issue.
Having the church open during this difficult time has meant that the current relationships that we had made within the community have been maintained however it has also allowed us to build new relationships too and understand issues that these individuals may be facing. As a result of these discussions we have been able to signpost to other charities and support networks in the local area. As the pandemic has continued the needs of those that we support have changed, initially it was people who were shielding and unable to get out and now we are really seeing the economic impact, job losses and financial woes have meant that people are struggling - that is where we can support.
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