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Debbie Dallara

Sep 26, 2026

40:05
Tell me about the services that you provide for the people of St Austell now.
40:10
We do a community larder as well.
40:14
We have passed that now on to Stack the Community Kitchen because they have more room in there.
40:19
But we have been doing a community larder since the beginning of COVID when four young boys knocked on the window and hadn't eaten for four or five days.
40:29
So that's how our community larder started.
40:32
And even though the shop was closed during COVID, we supplied food outside the shop, which we served on tables.
40:42
And we had about 30 to 40 people turn up pretty much daily looking for food because most of the shops had closed.
41:46
Perhaps they can cope a bit better with maybe lower footfall things like that and being able to maybe absorb that cost and move that away because they've got lots of other shops but for independents and for charity shops and shops and people that are trying to do the best by people who are really struggling that can be a real challenge when a town maybe encounters some of those challenges.

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