“I haven't got time to get frustrated,” Paul Nilson tells the ECHO, standing inside the Team Oasis community centre in Dingle, L8.
In little under two hours, Paul and a team of volunteers will collect food, drive it back to the centre and hand it out for free to those queuing outside - no questions asked. It will take roughly five minutes for the nearly ton-worth of food to be whittled down to barely a handful of items.
In the pop-up supermarket inside the building’s dance studio, the tables will be quickly packed down and stored away, ready to do it all again when food stocks come in - which could be as soon as the afternoon. “It has to be a joyous experience,” Paul says, speaking about the charity’s free food offer, even if it means carrying the burden of helping the community through the challenges it clearly faces.
