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<div><strong>Update as of April 2024:</strong>
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<div>I'm still raising money for the SOUL KITCHEN. We raised the £24,000 from the last campaign- thank you.  The total is being raised to £60,000- the team of volunteers are truely amazing, as are you, the donors. 
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<div>Please see the updates below on what work is done with your money. We are spending £30,000 a year purely on food supply. 
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<div>Please continue to donate. Every penny turns into food for those who can’t afford to buy apples, bananas, oranges, salad, vegetables. And they get a hot packed meal. 
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<div>AUSTERITY IS HERE TO STAY. 
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<div><strong>What is Soul Kitchen?</strong>
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<div>A band of multinational, multi-faith volunteers have worked throughout COVID and now deliver thousands of meals a year. It all started in 2017.
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<div>Hot food, served at a children centre in Kenmore  and a mosque in Harrow - all welcome, no questions asked. 
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<div>Initially, it was served in proper plates with fruit to follow. During COVID, it switched to delivery for those in need. Now it is a pick-up service - the clients come and pick up what they need…
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<div>If you have the time to give each weekend please contact: <a href="https://soulkitchenuk.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>[email redacted].uk</strong></a>. 
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<div>You will be most welcome. It is rewarding and inspiring at the same time. Or look at the website : <a href="https://www.soulkitchenuk.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong><a href="https://www.soulkitchenuk.co.uk" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.soulkitchenuk.co.uk</a></strong></a>
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<div>I (Iqbal) know the organisers- and 100% of your donations go in food. Direct from your wallet to the shopping bags.
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<div>If you don’t have time, please donate the money so the work can carry on.
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<div>It is a registered charity. 1192488.
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<div>It has won awards from Harrow Council.
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<div><em>The Web Kitchen</em> set up the website for free. Thank you to them! 
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<div>Many supermarkets now allow us to pick up surplus food so we don’t need to buy it. 
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<div>AUSTERITY IS NOT GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON
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<div><strong>The facts!</strong>
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<div>8.4 million people in the UK are living in food poverty, with BAME, disabled and older people worst affected. (Sustain UK )
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<li><a href="https://cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/news-listings/child-poverty-continues-rise-pandemic-response-falls-short-families" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">72% of children in poverty</a> have at least one parent who works. (Child Poverty Action Group)
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<li>A record high of nearly <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/382695/uk-foodbank-users/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">two million people in the UK used a food bank</a> in 2019-2020. (The Trussell Trust)
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<li>27% of food bank users said they couldn’t afford food because of delays or problems with benefit payments. (Office for National Statistics.)
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SOUL KITCHEN - relieving food poverty

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