Carly Burd #6 Stabbed in the back like Judas did to Caesar

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This is what she told the CIC regulator ('regular' for long time listeners) she would be doing:

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'the parcels contained enough food to last the household a few days'

reminder of what was in the (publicised) food parcels - the actual ingredients to make maybe one, or two, square meals and the rest store cupboard stuff

Carly Burd Salty Allotment #2 More red flags than Beijing on May Day.

I don’t know if this belongs here or on the Jack Monroe thread but this is a not for profit organisation which provides food parcels and meals in a bag to people in need: https://bagsoftaste.org/our-story/finances-funding/? They have a proper constitution, governance structure and need to raise...
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She fed ”over 4,000 people“? duck off!

In March, before she shat it and scarpered, she variously claimed to have fed 3,800 people, OR delivered “nearly 4,000 packages”, which isn’t the same thing at all as we have no idea how multiples of those went to Donnas.

www.yourharlow.com

Community champion Carly Burd brings free food delivery service to a close (but as one chapter closes....another one begins!) - Your Harlow

AWARD-winning community champion Carly Burd has decided to bring to an end her delivery of food parcels to needy families across Harlow.
www.yourharlow.com

They were bullshit figures to begin with, as they implausibly inflated depending on how much media attention she was getting, so this is bullshit piled on bullshit.
 
FourSeasonSoupObsessive said:
She fed ”over 4,000 people“? duck off!

In March, before she shat it and scarpered, she variously claimed to have fed 3,800 people, OR delivered “nearly 4,000 packages”, which isn’t the same thing at all as we have no idea how multiples of those went to Donnas.

www.yourharlow.com

Community champion Carly Burd brings free food delivery service to a close (but as one chapter closes....another one begins!) - Your Harlow

AWARD-winning community champion Carly Burd has decided to bring to an end her delivery of food parcels to needy families across Harlow.
www.yourharlow.com

They were bullshit figures to begin with, as they implausibly inflated depending on how much media attention she was getting, so this is bullshit piled on bullshit.
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It is the only thing the organisation actually did yet we'll never know how much of the £250k+ donations was spent on it. She's been a shifty old so-and-so the whole time.
 
Re: the amount of parcels she handed out. Is she claiming these were all bought from funds? Because before she raised the money she was keeping a count of how many had been given to people - I wonder if she retrospectively decided these should have been paid for from that pot and took some money out to reimburse herself.
 
Ungrateful moan incoming, but a food bank type place has started setting up Carly-esque stalls in our estate and leaving food there. My flatmate has told me he’s seen M&S meals there before, but I’ve never been lucky enough to catch them.

I’ve just been there now (granted I saw them unloading hours ago when I was on my way out, so all the good stuff will have gone) and all there is, is a hand full of potatoes and SO MANY bags of mouldy bananas which will obviously just sit there going even more mouldy. There’s hundreds.

Granted, they’re probably still edible if you eat them today, maybe tomorrow, and then some canny folks might want to make banana bread or something, but realistically come this time tomorrow it’s just going to look like a food bank has dumped a load of mouldy bananas on a housing estate and gone ‘there you go’, because that’s what they’ve done. Isn’t there etiquette around this stuff? Like how it’s rude to give homeless people your coppers or tip with them?

Again I accept there probably was much better stuff available when they first unloaded and I am by no means anti-food bank or anybody who volunteers their time doing work like this, it’s necessary and important and I did pick up some potatoes which I am grateful for! I just don’t like the “here is an actual tonne of mouldy food” messaging, made me feel a bit depressed when I was down there tbh.
 
chizontiz said:
Ungrateful moan incoming, but a food bank type place has started setting up Carly-esque stalls in our estate and leaving food there. My flatmate has told me he’s seen M&S meals there before, but I’ve never been lucky enough to catch them.

I’ve just been there now (granted I saw them unloading hours ago when I was on my way out, so all the good stuff will have gone) and all there is, is a hand full of potatoes and SO MANY bags of mouldy bananas which will obviously just sit there going even more mouldy. There’s hundreds.

Granted, they’re probably still edible if you eat them today, maybe tomorrow, and then some canny folks might want to make banana bread or something, but realistically come this time tomorrow it’s just going to look like a food bank has dumped a load of mouldy bananas on a housing estate and gone ‘there you go’, because that’s what they’ve done. Isn’t there etiquette around this stuff? Like how it’s rude to give homeless people your coppers or tip with them?

Again I accept there probably was much better stuff available when they first unloaded and I am by no means anti-food bank or anybody who volunteers their time doing work like this, it’s necessary and important and I did pick up some potatoes which I am grateful for! I just don’t like the “here is an actual tonne of mouldy food” messaging, made me feel a bit depressed when I was down there tbh.
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Mmm, rat bonanza.

ETA, I had a pet rat many, many years ago. A chunk of banana was his very favourite thing.
 
chizontiz said:
Ungrateful moan incoming, but a food bank type place has started setting up Carly-esque stalls in our estate and leaving food there. My flatmate has told me he’s seen M&S meals there before, but I’ve never been lucky enough to catch them.

I’ve just been there now (granted I saw them unloading hours ago when I was on my way out, so all the good stuff will have gone) and all there is, is a hand full of potatoes and SO MANY bags of mouldy bananas which will obviously just sit there going even more mouldy. There’s hundreds.

Granted, they’re probably still edible if you eat them today, maybe tomorrow, and then some canny folks might want to make banana bread or something, but realistically come this time tomorrow it’s just going to look like a food bank has dumped a load of mouldy bananas on a housing estate and gone ‘there you go’, because that’s what they’ve done. Isn’t there etiquette around this stuff? Like how it’s rude to give homeless people your coppers or tip with them?

Again I accept there probably was much better stuff available when they first unloaded and I am by no means anti-food bank or anybody who volunteers their time doing work like this, it’s necessary and important and I did pick up some potatoes which I am grateful for! I just don’t like the “here is an actual tonne of mouldy food” messaging, made me feel a bit depressed when I was down there tbh.
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I feel like just leaving is never going to be a suitable way to do it unless you have something like 100 identical loaves of bread you need to get rid of as a one off and that’s it - because otherwise inevitably what happens is all the desirable stuff goes very quickly and all that’s left is the crap stuff.

Tbh even if you had identical items, chances are one or two will be a bit squished and will get more squished as the day goes on and that’s what will inevitably be left there looking sad. Which is then really demoralising to the people who live there or have to go to try to get something and are greeted with the crappy leftovers.
 
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