The Kind Counter features in the Barkjng & Dagenham Post this week. The Kind Counter is a pop up sop kitchen based in East London but as the name suggests the thinking behind this project is to take it on the road. The Kind Counter continued to operate throughout lockdown as a pop up soup kitchen and relied greatly on donations of food and essentials to distribute. Many organisations approached the team to offer hot/cold food and items for sharing with homeless friends and these included Only a Pavement Away, Hedgecock Community Centre, East End Covid Support Network, the Sikh Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara, Humdum foodbank, Al Noor Mosque Barking and Dar Marrakech in Stratford amongst others. As a result of the needs of the patrons who visited and based on homeless visitor feedback a decision was made to make use of Bookbike London – A free book sharing social enterprise project which involves cycling to deliver books to individuals and establishments, including homeless hostels, care homes, schools etc. During Covid, Bookbike London expanded its remit and operations to include food parcels, clothes, medicine pick ups, along with the usual book for home visit drop offs. The soup kitchen expanded it’s services to hostels using Bookbike in order to be able to serve hard to reach homeless friends or those who were unable to venture out and had requested support. The success of the Kind Counter has been consistency. It is a very small and under resourced soup kitchen set up, but draws strength of using shared resources from the Borough (Company Drinks, Humdum) and accessing available help from others. #kkndciunter #csp #communityserviceprogramme # #foodbank #hkmeless #soupkitchen #homelesslivesmatter #endpoverty #foodpoverty #soupkitchen #humansoflondon #londonhomeless #homelesslondon #winter2022 #winter2022❄️💙 #humdumuk (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6SDLnISOH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=