Footsteps For Your Foodbank - 10,000 steps every day throughout February
Published on January 14, 2022
Support Start Up Stirling, as well as getting fit in February by taking the 10,000 steps challenge. An average person walks 5,000 steps every day, but going for a walk for just an extra 30 minutes can boost that figure to 10,000 steps. There are lots of different activities that you can do to achieve this that will help to keep you motivated. You don’t need a watch or pedometer that measures your step count, as there are plenty of phone apps that can help you measure this for free if you wish.
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Nobody Forgotten This Christmas
Published on November 29, 2021
Our Christmas Appeal for 2021 is now live.
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Tesco Collection Days
Published on November 25, 2021
A huge thank you to all the staff and customers at Tesco Stirling Superstore who donated an amazing amount of food during the Food Collection days last week - 860kgs of it, in fact!
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Tesco Food Collection
Published on November 17, 2021
Tesco Stirling Superstore and our partner FareShare are hosting the Tesco Food Collection from the 18-20th November. Staff and volunteers from Start Up Stirling will be there to support the collection, so do come and see us.
You can donate items in-store, which will help to ensure that we have sufficient supplies for our foodbank over the busy winter months ahead.
Here is our shopping list of essential items if you would like some inspiration!
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Christmas has come early!
Published on November 01, 2021
Due to the number of requests that we have had already, we are launching our Reverse Advent Calendar designed for individuals and families and Secret Santa for sharing with colleagues and friends prior to our main Christmas Appeal.
We also have paper copies of these in the office. Please ring us on 01786 561027 if you would like one and keep watching for more information about our Christmas Appeal later in the month.
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Communities Beyond Covid Appeal
Published on October 01, 2021
The lifting of some restrictions surrounding Covid-19 are welcome, but for many of the people that we support at Start Up Stirling, their circumstances have not improved, due to furlough ending, unemployment rising, food and fuel costs increasing and the reduction in Universal Credit. We are therefore launching our Communities Beyond Covid Appeal and asking for your help.
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Autumn shopping list
Published on September 22, 2021
This is a list of foods that we desperately need for crisis food support, so that we have sufficient stock for the winter months when our referrals increase.
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We are recruiting
Published on September 15, 2021
We are looking for a Community & Events Fundraiser to join our team.
If you would like to join the charity and help us support people across the Stirling Council area
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Volunteer Focus - Margaret Hughes – Foodbank Volunteer
Published on August 12, 2021
This is part of a short series of posts to highlight our volunteers and how their roles have changed.
It was heartbreaking when COVID 19 struck and all volunteers over a certain age had to isolate... BUT we are back!
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Volunteer Focus - David Clark – Volunteer Driver for the home deliveries and Foodbank Volunteer
Published on August 12, 2021
This is part of a short series of posts to highlight our volunteers and how their roles have changed.
I had not imagined for a moment that, in my eighth decade, I would become a 'white van man'! But that is the direction in which my volunteering with Start Up has taken me. The early months of the pandemic saw a shift in the style of Start Up's provision to its clients and brought the need for an increase in the team of delivery drivers. The two distribution points in Stirling church halls had to be closed and all deliveries to clients were done to their homes by the vans. So, when the first lockdown started to ease, I became a white van man (usually it was the wee silver van, although occasionally I was allowed out with the big Transit). But none of this happened before I had undertaken an assessment of my driving skills, something I last did as a teenager at my driving test away back in the 1960s!
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