Photo: Solomon Smith
Brixton Soup Kitchen, founded in January 2013 is seeking to raise £30,000 in order to support their upkeep and programme delivery.
For the past three years Brixtonian founders, Solomon Smith and Mahamed Hashi have run the kitchen with no funding. Relying solely on donations from the public, the upkeep is now becoming hard to maintain due to the expansion and increase in numbers of people to support.
The kitchen, which plans to bridge the gap on homeless people being viewed as outcast to society, initially started out to feed the homeless and those in desperate need. Three years later the kitchen has rapidly expanded, now helping to feed elderly people who have been left with no loved ones as well as young people that might have been kicked out of school or need help with behavioural issues.
Open Monday – Thursday 10am-2pm, in addition to serving food and drinks the kitchen provides CV workshops, job guidance as well as advice on housing and benefits.
Since opening, there has been 40,000 meals served and have an overseas expansion, feeding the homeless in Miami and Toronto.
The kitchen has received a variety of media support, just three months after opening they were awarded with a ‘Our Hero’s Award’ by the South London press, they featured in the Evening Standard’s top 100 influential list in 2015 and 2016. As well as being nominated in the Independent on Sunday’s Happy 100 list.
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