A Northumberland café that offers vital support to its local community has appealed for help to save it amid the cost of living crisis.
Northern Soul Kitchen in Berwick does things differently to your typical café, by saving perfectly good unsold food that would have otherwise gone to landfill and turning it into hot meals for customers. Working on a ‘pay what you can’ basis, meaning that visitors pay what they feel they can afford for their food, the café has been a lifeline for locals - particularly in recent months.
Set up in 2016 by co-founders Millie McRobbie and Harriet Grecian and run by a dedicated team of staff and volunteers, Northern Soul saves around four tonnes of food going to waste each year and provides a warm and welcoming space for homeless people, community projects, elderly people, families and anyone else who needs them. Now the café is asking for some help in return, as it is in "desperate need" of financial support to keep its important work going.
