Splott Community Volunteers was established eight years ago to help people from disadvantaged communities who are on low income or people who are homeless to access food, companionship and support.
The charity provides a breakfast club for members of the community every Thursday morning from its base at the STAR Centre on Splott Road. Each week, a team of 20+ volunteers work together to collect food donations from local supermarkets, cook a hot breakfast and prepare essential food bags to give out to between 40 and 80 people. The breakfast club not only feeds people, it connects the community, decreases loneliness and isolation and gives people purpose through volunteering opportunities.
We recently received a food growing package from Keep Wales Tidy and have established a small garden using raised planters and trellises for growing edibles to distribute at breakfast club.