The Surbiton Community Fridge

Surbiton Community Fridge opened it’s doors in October 2022 at 115 Brighton Road – just down the road from The Lamb Pub. Started by the Migrant Advocacy Service, it is now a collaboration between Community Brain, Angels of the Hood and New Era Projects. We have seen numbers coming through our doors increase weekly. We have over 500 registered users. We often see between 35 and 60 people each day. Most of them are collecting food for more than one person in their household.

Our mission is two fold; we hate waste and we want to help people stretch their budgets to the end of the month. Each year millions of pounds worth of edible food is thrown away because it is past its Use By or Best Before date. The law is strict about Use By products. We cannot give them to the public. Best Before products e.g. fresh veg and bread, tins and packets can still be good to eat after the date indicated with a little judgement.

We open our doors each day from 10am til 2pm , collect, sort and display the food that we have collected from 14 local supermarkets, and our 50 weekly volunteers aim to give it away as quickly as possible. Simple! We estimate that we collect 1 tonne of waste food per week. It’s a lucky dip what we get. We look to Facebook to communicate with our followers (Surbiton Community Fridge) and find recipe inspiration for gluts. ULEZ will present a huge challenge as many of our volunteer drivers are not driving compliant vehicles. We hope to have funding for an electric, refrigerated van which will reduce our carbon footprint substantially while giving us increased capacity to collect.

We call all our customers and volunteers Food Heroes. They are stopping edible food going into the landfill or being turned into biogas. Anything that we cannot shift is shared with 3 farms. We also support other community activities with free food. There’s very little waste. It takes a bit of effort but it’s worth it. Come down to the shop to see us soon. No qualification is required to be a Food Hero apart from the desire to save food. Any recipes you can share with our Facebook group will be gratefully received too! A very warm welcome awaits you.

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7. A page turning, wide open (5)

8. Nothing in port backing calvary unit (5)

9. Pictures – not so innocent! (7)

11. Female relative going back and forth (3)

12. Tell sir about creeper’s support (7)

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19. Edible colours (7)

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10. Floral garland seen in Rayleigh (3)

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You have two minutes to find all the words of three or more letters that can be made from the letters above. Plurals are allowed, proper nouns are not. The 6-letter word will always be just a normal everyday word.

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20. Bright star returning to an old county (4)

21. Foreign agent holding back a mob (4)