Granville Community Kitchen (GCK), in the Granville Centre in Carlton Vale, has become a busy base of food deliveries for vulnerable people near and far.
Once a week they provide hot meals which are delivered to families with a bag containing extra food aswell as toiletries and cleaning materials. “It’s not enough for a week on its own but it is enough as a staple,” said Leslie.
“The kitchen’s used to decant food… 50 boiled eggs in a tin and we have to put it in individual bags. We get vats of cream cheese.
“We assume the surplus of food we’re getting will dry up, as it came largely from restaurants collapsing but we’ll see.”
The Granville is one of the organisations who are in receipt of meals from the Community Response Kitchen in Alperton. and its founders Daksha Varsani and husband Paresh Jethwa.
“The amount of organisations setting up kitchens at the moment is astonishing; we’ve been approached by six different kitchens.
“We’ve remained loyal to Daksha and Paresh as they’ve been there from the start,” said Leslie.
The couple have delivered more than 87,000 meals and have inspired a whole community in the borough and now their cooked food and other donated food from local businesses are received by charities, schools and mutual aid groups in other parts of London.”
