Sapphire Community Pantry in Bega, New South Wales | Charitable organisation

Sapphire Community Pantry

Locality: Bega, New South Wales

Phone: +61 490 843 518

Address: 2 Peden Street 2550 Bega, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.sapphirecommunity.org.au

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25.01.2022 In Cobargo today doing a little drop-in centre at Roly's Village Kitchen giving out food relief hampers and Community Pantry "show bags". Thank you Roly for the tea and coffee. We had a lovely chat to a number of people who dropped in. We got great feedback on the work we have been doing since the bushfires, our emergency food relief, the services from our Pantry in Bega and our Mobile Pantry service which has been servicing Quaama, Bemboka and soon Cobargo. More info about ...that later. Our Mobile Pantry is an important service linking people and sharing with community as well as helping people who are struggling to make ends meet. We have been getting requests for providing the service to Cobargo for some months now but before we could, we needed to do a few things (like get a van and helpers to provide the service). Thank you to Foodbank NSW & ACT for supplying low-cost emergency food hampers which we gave away today and also a big thank you to all our donors who provide the funding to enable us to give away the stuff that puts a smile on people's faces. The bags were donated by the Bega Valley Shire Council, frozen meals by Two Good Co. plus some "rescued" meals that fell off the back of a truck (well the truck fell over).

25.01.2022 How good is this!!!! Christine and Peter will get a holiday!!

25.01.2022 Here is a small sample of some of the interesting foods we have in store. Salad topping 1kg - a mixture of sunflower seeds, pepitas, almonds, pine nuts, dried cranberries. Great for salads, or perhaps a topping on your cereal or muffins. Cost recovery price of 25 points. (1 point = 20 cents, so work it out) Chef Demi Glace liquid, 200mL - "CHEF Demi Glace Liquid Concentrate is VEGAN! Perfect base for brown sauces, with prominent red wine and tomato notes." Cost recovery price... is 8 points Palm sugar 260g - great for your Asian cooking. Cost recovery price is 4 points Ferrero Rocher chocolates, heart box - 100g. Cost recovery price is 12 points Harvest Braised Steak & Onions - 425g. Cost recovery price is 11 points Walkers Shortbread - 250g. Cost recovery price is 8 points.

24.01.2022 SAPPHIRE COMMUNITY PANTRY open again this week Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 2pm. At 2 Peden Street, Bega All welcome to come shop, free bread, other free items as well, plus loads of very cheap groceries. Lots of new items in as well as old favourites. Here are some of them:... Apples, bananas, carrots, potatoes, oranges Mango pickle in oil 2L tins of canola oil Almond fingers Devondale longlife milk full cream, skim Tomato & smoky chipotle relish Gouldburn Valley orange juice Gravox chicken gravy Gravox steakhouse sauce Greenland soy sauce Harvest onion & braised steak Huggies fragrance free baby wipes Kelloggs sultana bran Listerine Loakers gran Pasticceria dark hazelnut chocolate biscuits Nesquick strawberry OMO sensitive laundry powder Praise balsamic dressing Robert Timms Royal Special mild flavour coffee bags Safcol tuna in springwater Sanitarium weetbix Schweppes lemonade zero sugar Uncle Toby’s Le Snak See more

24.01.2022 Free and low-cost fruit & veg at Your Community Pantry, 2 Peden Street, Bega from 11 AM to 2 PM today. Goods priced in Pantry Points, each point is 20c - 10 points just $2.00. Proceeds go to providing free and and below cost food to people in need in the Bega Valley.

24.01.2022 Do you eat canned chickpeas? Do you throw out the liquid in the tin? Do you like pavlova? Here's a nifty way to use that liquid, instead of egg whites. The water, called "aquafaba" when cold whips up beautifully for meringues. (I know, because I've done it!).https://minimalistbaker.com/a-guide-to-aquafaba/

20.01.2022 Come into the Pantry today, 2 Peden Street Bega to grab your low cost-bargains for the weekend. Open from 11 AM to 2 PM.

19.01.2022 THE SAPPHIRE COMMUNITY PANTRY is open this week from Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 2pm. Located at 2 Peden Street, Bega, next to the rear of Mitre 10, and opposite Beaurepaire Tyres. It’s five weeks until we close for Christmas, on Thursday 24th December, and reopening on Tuesday 5th January, 2021. During our closed period, if you have an emergency food needs between Christmas and New Year’s day, contact Mission Australia on 6491 2100. For homelessness and other issues, contact ...Link2Home on 1800 152 152. We have a lot of goodies in the Pantry which would be suitable as Christmas gifts. Those we have identified in this way, we have put easily removable price stickers on them. Other items have the points value written on them in marking ink, which is easily removable with hand sanitiser. So what’s new in this week? Here’s a small selection: Bananas, oranges, tomatoes, mushrooms, potatoes, onions Rescued fruit, vegetables and bread - free Ahmed foods mango pickle Arnotts cheese board assorted crackers Azure Australian grown premium quality canola oil, 2L bottles CC’s Tasty Cheese Chazoos Cheesy Twists Coles Golden Syrup squeeze bottle Colgate sensitive pro relief enamel repair toothpaste Whitlock & Sons tomato & smoky chipotle relish Fountain plum sauce Goodness To Go dried figs Goodness To Go hikers mix Goodness To Go raw mixed nuts Goulburn Valley orange juice, long life Gravox chicken gravy Greenland champignons pieces & stems Greenland soy sauce Kelloggs sultana bran Kettle chunky cut flamed steak chips Kurrajong Kitchens Lavosh Crackers Loacker Gran Pasticceria patisserie coconut biscuits Praise coleslaw dressing Rice crisps Robert Timms royal Special mild flavour coffee bags Safcol tuna in springwater Sanitarium Up & Go Liquid Breakfast, caramel Sunshine sugar, low GI Twinings Infuse cold water infusion lemon, orange & ginger Whole Earth stevia & sugar baking blend Woolworths Juice Poppers Woolworths lightly fruited cake And of course delicious barista coffee and tea, for a small donation. We are still Covid-safe, which means we are asking all people coming to the Pantry for their contact details, using hand sanitiser, and limiting the number of shoppers allowed in at one time. Everyone is welcome to shop at The Pantry.

17.01.2022 It's that high chair again!! I posted earlier this week that a family who lost everything were in need of a high chair. A kind woman responded (along with two other kind people), but due to a mix-up where I thought someone else was picking it up, I have misplaced the person's name and contact details. Was it you? If so, could you please send me a message on this page? Thank you all for your patience and generosity.

16.01.2022 We are open today from 11 AM to 2 PM, 2 Peden Street in Bega (near Beaurepaires). Low cost and free goodies to help finding it tough and especially in these times of COVID-19 and still struggling with the impact of last years bushfires. Community is the centre of Sapphire Community Pantry so we welcome everyone - may you would be interested in donating some time, produce or money so we can give food away to those in the greatest need.

16.01.2022 thank you to all who voted for the Pantry in the #2EC "Best of the Best" Customer Service Awards category. It was almost impossible to vote however because their website kept crashing, but thank you to those who persisted. We didn't win, but congratulations to the winners, Backstreet Bakerhouse, Kiah General Store, and Tabletop Gaming.

15.01.2022 All welcome to shop at the Mobile Pantry which will be at Cobargo this Wednesday - 12 noon to 2pm at Roly's Village Kitchen, 46 Princes Highway, Cobargo

15.01.2022 Do you know someone who needs to do this course. It's free, get in early!

15.01.2022 Pop in to the Pantry, 2 Peden St, Bega - open today from 11AM to 2PM

15.01.2022 Local free range eggs $1.20 for 6

10.01.2022 The Pantry open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 11am to 2pm. At 2 Peden Street, Bega next to the rear of Mitre 10, and opposite Beaurepaire Tyres. We seem to have returned to winter, but it’s always warm and welcoming at The Pantry, so come on down. We will offer you hot chocolate, coffee or tea and biscuits, and the cheapest groceries on the planet plus freebies. We got a whole lot of new free, frozen meals on Thursday from Two Good Co as well. As well as item...s we haven’t been able to get from Foodbank for yonks: Harvest Onion & Braised Steak, and Harvest Beef Mild Curry. And here’s what new in this week: Arnotts Cheeseboard Crackers Belmont Maria Biscuits Blackstone Deli Stle Sweet Potato Chips Cadbury simply Smooshed Cranberry and Almond Bar Coles Golden Syrup Squeeze Damora Wheaten Crackers Devondale long life full cream milk, and skim milk Ferrero Rocher Heart Flour Goodness To Go Salad Topping Nut & Seed Heinz Baked Beans Keep It cleaner Tortilla Veggie Chips Lentil & Beetroot Kinder Joy Eggs New Season Corn Kernels Parsons Vanilla Rice Cream Pure Leaf Loose Leaf Peppermint Infusion Sanitarium Weetbix SPC Bakers Choice Apricot Pie Filling Trumps Puffed Organic Quinoa Woolworths Corn Chips Apples, bananas, carrots, cucumbers, beans, peas, peeled garlic, ginger, turmeric, mushrooms, onions, potatoes, watermelon

07.01.2022 The Pantry is open! 2 Peden St, Bega from 11AM to 2PM

05.01.2022 Duncan and his wife Sue have been behind the Pantry since the beginning, offering wise counsel and support. Congratulations Duncan for this award.

05.01.2022 We don't usually put up "Wanted" ads on this page, but this is a special case. A family who lost everything in the bushfires ae in need of a highchair for their infant. Does anyone have one that is excess to their need? If so, could you please message me? Thank you all. (Picture for illustration purposes only - any safe kind would do)

04.01.2022 Wouldn't it be great to have this happen in the area?

04.01.2022 Sapphire Community Projects Inc, the charity which runs the Pantry, is approved as a #volunteer #work organisation. This means that #jobseekers can meet their volunteer hours as part of their #mutual #obligation requirements with #Centrelink, by volunteering at the Pantry, or in one of our other projects.. Contact us via Facebook, or email us on [email protected]. If you are enthusiastic, reliable, and enjoy working with people, you'll fit right in! https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au//mutual-obligat/29751

03.01.2022 So amazingly honoured to receive this. Thank you to all who voted for me, and thank you to the volunteers and everyone else who have made the Pantry the success it is. I'd love to take you all with us to the Blue Mountains, but alas - can't fit you in the car. ;)

02.01.2022 The Pantry is open tomorrow, Friday, from 11am to 2pm. Late this arvo we received a delivery of delicious Two Good Co meals, as well as, fresh from Sydney Markets, mushrooms, beans, peas, red capsicum, ginger, turmeric, mangoes, blueberries, strawberries, peeled garlic, and Roma tomatoes. So come on down to 2 Peden Street Bega and grab some yummies. The meals are free, the produce is very cheap.

02.01.2022 The 2019/20 bush fire season devastated Australian rural, regional and remote communities. The COVID-19 pandemic then detracted attention away from the crucial recovery effort. While it's been a tough year for everyone, we know it's been especially tough for our fire-affected communities - particularly the kids.

01.01.2022 Come on in to the Community Pantry today, 2 Peden Street, Bega from 11 AM to 2 PM. Low cost groceries, fruit & veg. Supporting the community.

01.01.2022 I keep forgetting to use Instagram, or to even check it. What a dinosaur I am. But here's a pic from the August delivery by Two Good Co of delicious meals that we give out to our customers for free. Two Good Co are a Sydney-based social enterprise that supports women escaping domestic violence, offers employment and training opportunities, and are great folks. On Thursday they delivered 800 frozen meals to us, plus a heap of fresh produce they purchased on our behalf direct from the Sydney Markets. Thank you so much - what you do is appreciated by all.