Harvesters Soup Kitchen

Established in 2012, Harvesters Kitchen is a resource aimed at meeting the needs of homeless and vulnerable people within the community. Set up in partnership with Divine Rescue, the project offers an array of services all with the common goal of helping to rebuild the lives of those in our community. With the help of many regular volunteers each year our mission is to provide a hot meal, clothing and toiletries for those in need.

Harvesters Kitchen is made up of the soup kitchen which serves hot food and also the food bank which distributes food parcels and groceries. Both feed and care for the homeless and the less privileged in the community at least three to four times a week (Pre COVID 19) with scheduled lunch and breakfast sessions whilst providing other much needed support, advice, and signposting services to the users. We provide clothes, shoes and other materials to the needy. Post COVID 19, sees us developing and modifying our operation to enable us to continue to support the community in a COVID safe environment. Beyond this, we aim to build impactful relationships and work with individuals to take control of their lives through setting goals and making choices aided by high-quality support to move them towards independent living.

The Harvesters’s Food bank operates weekly (Saturday’s) to distribute much needed grocery supplies to the less privileged in the community. Our clients are vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the community including homeless and those facing threat of homeless, unemployed and those on low income, asylum seekers etc.

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Harvesters Kitchen

Given a five star “scores on the doors” food hygiene rating in 2020, we deliver our services in Hackney Borough which remains the second most deprived local authority in England on the Government’s Indices of Multiple Deprivation and all the wards are in the top ten percent the most deprived in the country. There is a high level of unemployment, homelessness, and other social challenges.

Unfortunately, this same group of people suffer from poor nutrition, have unaddressed health complications and no safe place to self-isolate from other people due to the type of accommodation available to them and again, they seem to bear the brunt of the impact of the COVID 19 crisis and we are in need of urgent financial support to help to minimize this impact on their lives. Particularly during the pandemic and lockdown, Harvester’s Kitchen has responded swiftly by reshaping the nature of their operational delivery within the community to providing “Bags of Hope” to those mostly affected by the lockdown. The Bags of Hope includes essential food items and relief materials. 

Launched at the beginning of April 2020 and by end of September 2020 (6months), the food bank had distributed over 1500 Bags of Hope in the given 6 month period and with the number of bags being distributed continuously rising and equating to up to 300 bags per month demonstrating the continuous and rising need for support.

The distribution of the bags of hope have been extremely popular and since October 2020 the bags of hope average weekly distribution is about 130 bags per week. Over the 8 years that Harvesters Team have been feeding the community, they have supplied and provided over 14,000 hot meals to people in the local community.

Daily Lunch Sandwiches – This is supplied by Pret a manger and distributed by Harvesters Kitchen team on a daily basis at lunchtime 4 times a week.

The sandwiches are supplied fresh daily by Pret a Manger. These sandwiches have proven quite useful and fulfil a daily need for the locality including NHS frontline key workers during the period of the pandemic and beyond.

HAPPY 10TH YEAR ANIVERSARY HARVESTERS KITCHEN

On 8th of July 2023, Harvesters Kitchen Project officially clocked 10yrs. All glory be to God.

We thank God for all that He has granted us the grace to complete with the Harvesters Kitchen Project, thise that we have been able to reach through feeding, the lives that have been turned around from the effects and outcomes of this project and we trust and look up to the Lord to sustain us for the years ahead as we continue press on to reach others

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