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IMPACT SURVEY & REPORT 2019

When asked if there was
anything that prevented
people from accessing The 29.1%

Port Grocery activities...
of participants
said ‘yes’
36.6%

Examples that were given included lack of
transportation and general mobility, and people said that they were
not knowing about the centre. These indicators are ‘not sure’
to be addressed by investigating the introduction
of a mobile/home delivery service that will provide
delivery of shopping to those residents who are for
either medical or mental health issues unable to
physically attend the shop.

However, the majority of the 86 responses indicated
that there was a degree of stigma attached to the
project, and incorrect assumption that The Port
Grocery was a food bank. Also it was suggested that
people were either too proud to engage or they
felt that they didn’t understand the concept or that
they were not entitled to use the Port Grocery Shop
or attend the Wednesday Welcome. A strategy to
be implemented by TPG is to clearly explain that the
overriding aim of TPG is to “Wage the War against
Food Waste” and prevent perfectly good, healthy
food being disposed of in landfill, rather than act as
a service aimed mainly at those in need.

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