Together, we can

Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels

Registered Charity SC050874

Our OKFP Committee are absolutely thrilled to share the following statement from The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Chair, Kate Still :- “This project, delivered by Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels, is a great example of community activity in action showing just what can be achieved when people come together for a common cause or to help others. It’s all thanks to National Lottery players that we can help give charities and community groups throughout Scotland greater certainty during challenging times.” This award provides us with the resources to continue our work in the community for the next TWO YEARS 🙌🏻 Let’s see what difference we can make this year with this amazing fund behind us 🥂 Thank you ; The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland

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3 days ago

We were honoured to welcome Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to Old Kilpatrick this week

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We were honoured to welcome Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to Old Kilpatrick this week

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Such an amazing achievement from one little lady, she cares for everyone and now has blossomed to thousands of meals helping hundreds of families. We'll done maureen and all your crew. Xxx

Do you take sanity’s towels and things x

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4 days ago

Update for clarity : we’ve been trying to collect the parcel since 25th of April and today we received final confirmation from DPD that they have closed the complaint because they have proof of delivery and are unable to help us any further, they suggested reporting it.

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We’ve had an unfortunate incident that I’m hoping someone in our community can help with.

We had uniforms delivered by DPD at 7pm on 19th April, we were closed and the driver handed the package into the chippy who have confirmed they received it.

When we got notification that the parcel had been delivered, we went to collect only to be told that someone had already picked it up.

No one from our OKFP team were aware that I had placed an order or received notification of its delivery other than me.

Someone has been in and taken the parcel, the chippy don’t remember who they gave it to and we are £200 down and missing a parcel.

DPD are unable to help as they have photographic evidence of the package being handed to a staff member in the Golden Chip who confirmed they got it.

If anyone has accidentally picked up the orange Workwear Express parcel, please let us know as we have been advised to report this to the police.

Our uniforms are not of any use to anyone other than our team and we would prefer to have them back rather than get the police involved.

Any information would be gratefully received
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How odd!! Hope you get to the bottom of it x

Very strange, is there any CCTV/cameras around the shops area that would pick up who went into chippy/ or out with the parcel. That’s nearly 4 weeks a long time now and nobody brought back.

Hope you get them back !

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4 days ago

What a guy - Joe Gibson from Adriano's takeaway in Clydebank 🤩
Their opening night special sold 253 suppers which meant that £253 was donated to our free food pantry 🙌🏻
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Amazing

Fantastic and thank you.

Fantastic ❤️ x

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5 days ago

A big thank you to Joe and the team at Adriano's takeaway in Clydebank for supporting ourselves and Golden Friendships with donations from their opening night 🤩
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Is Adriano’s back open?

Looking forward to our fish suppers tonight - have missed Adriano’s mega. Welcome back Team Adriano 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻.

Well done Adrianos chippy 👍💙

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1 week ago

A Laila cuddle is the best 💗

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She a wee star loves sharing kindness thank you for having us x

Xx jist awsum

Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels is at Napier Hall.

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What a fabulous night to celebrate our 4th birthday. There is honestly nothing quite like our OKFP family 🌈🩷 thank you team, you are awesome 🤩 ... See MoreSee Less

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Happy birthday folks 🎉🎂🎉🎊

Happy 4th birthday yous all do. Fantastic job 🙂

Fabulous pictures 🤗

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The greatest team ever 😍😍😍

Fantastic team💪❤️🤩

Happy Birthday to you all 👏👏x

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2 weeks ago

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happy 4th birthday , you have done so much for the community.Well done and keep it up

Our Impact

Bringing the Community together to help each other.

We have started 2023 with our busiest months ever and have decided that we must make changes to our service if we are to survive these increases in demand.

In January 2022 we provided food to 61 households, February 2022 it was 57 households. Each household received an average of 20 items including food and toiletries which equated to roughly 2,000 items of food over that two month period. Zero working families, zero retired people and under 100 pets.

In January 2023 we provided food to 577 households and 566 in February. This equated to roughly 20,000 items!!!! 25% working families, 15% retired people and over 400 pets!

Whilst our food donations are high and our supporters are incredibly generous, we cannot sustain this going forward, therefore changes need to be made.

From 1st April we will no longer be providing an extensive range of food items in our free Pantry and the service will look as follows.

5 item Breakfast Packs : choose from bread, cereal, breakfast bars, milk, juice, beans, jam or spreads.

These packs should provide a family with 3-5 days breakfasts. NO CHARGE

Lunch in the Chatty Cafe : a free hot 2 course lunch will be offered to anyone sitting in our cafe (takeaway not available) NO CHARGE

Dinner : a choice of one free takeaway homemade meal will be available to everyone attending in person. NO CHARGE

(Multiple meals are available to takeaway depending on availability and a donation will be required)

With there being an increase locally in other food banks, pantries, warm hubs, drop in cafes there really is no longer a shortage of places for people to go to collect food parcels and we want to concentrate to encouraging people to come and socialise in OKFP Hub, collect a Breakfast Pack, enjoy sitting down for a free lunch in our Chatty Cafe and takeaway a dinner portion to enjoy at home.

Miscellaneous food items will be available to anyone not wishing to take the 5 item breakfast park. Toiletries, baby items and pet food will continue to be offered dependent on stock levels and of course our free surplus food waste items will be readily available daily in addition to everything else. NO CHARGE

In 2020 when we started our project, OKFP stood for Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels.

In 2022 we implemented changes and OKFP stood for Old Kilpatrick Food Pantry.

This year, OKFP will stand for Old Kilpatrick Food Provision.

Our aims and objectives as a Registered Charity SC050874 remain as important to us now as they were when we started : ‘Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels will strive to alleviate food poverty and tackle social isolation in our Community’

The next couple of weeks of March will be a transitional period at OKFP as we gently introduce the changes to our service and we ask for your support and patience with our volunteers and employees who are on hand to help you when you visit.

Please continue to support us – we are nothing without your help

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📤 We provide food parcels for those in need
📌Old Kilpatrick, Dalmuir and Bowling
💚 No means-tested, open to all
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This week’s shopping list if you can help.

You can drop donations off at our free Food Pantry, Napier Hall, Old Kilpatrick Monday to Friday 12-4

Our Amazon wish list let’s you choose your items and they deliver direct to our door (link below)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/TIHJ31ZX8CHP?ref_=wl_share

You can also do a regular online shopping with your chosen supermarket or Iceland Warehouse and put our address in as the delivery option.

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can donate via our website www.okfp.org.uk

Thank you for continuing to support our Charity 🙏🏻

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This week’s shopping list if you can help.

You can drop donations off at our free Food Pantry, Napier Hall, Old Kilpatrick Monday to Friday 12-4

Our Amazon wish list let’s you choose your items and they deliver direct to our door (link below)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/TIHJ31ZX8CHP?ref_=wl_share

You can also do a regular online shopping with your chosen supermarket or Iceland Warehouse and put our address in as the delivery option.

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can donate via our website www.okfp.org.uk

Thank you for continuing to support our Charity 🙏🏻

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May Day Holiday - we are closed on Monday 6th May

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May Day Holiday - we are closed on Monday 6th May ...

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Thank you to Lynsey from Peck Catering Ltd for donating Easter Eggs to our Appeal 🤩
We are very grateful for your support 🐣

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Thank you to Lynsey from Peck Catering Ltd for donating Easter Eggs to our Appeal 🤩
We are very grateful for your support 🐣 ...

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Thank you to Gary Bell, The Lovat Arms and Duntiglennan for their generous donations to our free food pantry 🤩
We are very grateful for your support 🙏🏻

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Thank you to Gary Bell, The Lovat Arms and Duntiglennan for their generous donations to our free food pantry 🤩
We are very grateful for your support 🙏🏻 ...

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OKFP HUB, PANTRY AND CHATTY CAFE ARE CLOSED ON MONDAY 1st APRIL 🐣

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OKFP HUB, PANTRY AND CHATTY CAFE ARE CLOSED ON MONDAY 1st APRIL 🐣 ...

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A big thank you to MCC Labels in Clydebank, their staff donated a load of eggs for our Easter Appeal 🤩
We are very grateful for your support 🙏🏻

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A big thank you to MCC Labels in Clydebank, their staff donated a load of eggs for our Easter Appeal 🤩
We are very grateful for your support 🙏🏻 ...

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Thank you Maureen and Raymund McGrath for donating Easter Eggs to our Appeal 🤩

Eggs can be dropped off to OKFP : Napier Hall, The ‘wee’ Chatty Cafe or The Glen Lusset Bar all week until Friday 29th March.

Alternatively, you can donate online at www.okfp.org.uk

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Thank you Maureen and Raymund McGrath for donating Easter Eggs to our Appeal 🤩

Eggs can be dropped off to OKFP : Napier Hall, The ‘wee’ Chatty Cafe or The Glen Lusset Bar all week until Friday 29th March.

Alternatively, you can donate online at www.okfp.org.uk

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***EASTER EGG APPEAL***

Please consider buying an extra Easter Egg this year to help us make sure that the families who visit our food pantry don’t miss out on a wee treat.

Our very own OKFP Esther Bunny is looking forward to making even more children smile this year.

Please help us if you can.

Drop off at our OKFP Hub in Napier Hall, Old Kilpatrick, The Glen Lusset Bar or The Coffee Club

Maybe your friends, family or work colleagues would like to chip in and buy a few together for us 🥰

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***EASTER EGG APPEAL***

Please consider buying an extra Easter Egg this year to help us make sure that the families who visit our food pantry don’t miss out on a wee treat.

Our very own OKFP Esther Bunny is looking forward to making even more children smile this year.

Please help us if you can.

Drop off at our OKFP Hub in Napier Hall, Old Kilpatrick, The Glen Lusset Bar or The Coffee Club

Maybe your friends, family or work colleagues would like to chip in and buy a few together for us 🥰

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A huge thank you to our favourite chef Marco Fuso Pizza Consultancy and New Concept Beyond Catering Equipment Ltd, Clydebank who donated the freshly baked Italian pizzas from todays masterclass 😍
What a treat 🤩

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