{"id":4660,"date":"2024-05-02T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/?page_id=4660"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:51:48","slug":"cap-christians-against-poverty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/?page_id=4660","title":{"rendered":"The Lord&#8217;s Larder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u>Lord&#8217;s Larder<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lord\u2019s Larder Food Bank is a local \u2018bank\u2019 of non-perishable in life ambient food operated by volunteers from churches in and around Yeovil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year in 2024, over 163,000 items of food were given out via 70 different agencies to help over 9,342 local people, (5,678 adults and 3,684 children.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It began in a small way in 1991 when a representative of Yeovil Citizens\u2019 Advice Bureau spoke about the need for emergency food to members of one of the churches in Yeovil. It is now supplied by over 60 local churches, 45 schools and several community groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harvest-2023.1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"5448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harvest-2023.1-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harvest-2023.1-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harvest-2023.1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harvest-2023.1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harvest-2023.1-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harvest-2023.1-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Harvest Collection for the Lord&#8217;s Larder at St James&#8217;<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How the Larder Works<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food and money are donated throughout the year by local churches, businesses, schools and other charities.<br>Volunteers sort, &amp; store all donations of food in a purpose built larder.<br>Requests for food are made by phone through recognized agencies, who then collect parcels to hand on to their clients.<br>Emergency food parcels are made up by the volunteers, according to need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord&#8217;s Larder The Lord\u2019s Larder Food Bank is a local \u2018bank\u2019 of non-perishable in life ambient food operated by volunteers from churches in and around Yeovil. Last year in 2024, over 163,000 items of food were given out via 70 different agencies to help over 9,342 local people, (5,678 adults and 3,684 children.) It began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5450,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4660\/revisions\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}