Community Kitchen - The Idea behind it

For several weeks now people have been asking me about why I wanted to set up a Community Kitchen and its simple ... to help those in the town who have fallen onto bad times due to economic pressures or by making a bad judgement call. Either way the town was lacking a place that could open its doors and welcome people with a hot bowl of soup and a cuppa.

It's easy these days to get on with life, in doing so we seem to have lost the time we had to be a community and to help one another. So that is why I decided to open 'The Point'

But it will be much more than that, it will act as a food bank for those in need with a drop in service for local residents to get the help and advice required to deal with issues. With no judgements made. We will also have a Job Club and a series of training programmes for local residents to attend.

One of the biggest questions have been why is it a "Pay What You Can Afford" scheme, that too has a simple answer ... I want a place that is accessible to all, no matter what income they're on. Every time someone donates to the cause, it means we can buy the produce to feed the community. It's as simple as that.

The Point Community Kitchen is part of the Thornaby Community Partnership and fingers crossed it becomes part of the community.

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Darlington Library

So Darlington Council have to make huge savings and doing so it seems their first target is the Crown Street Library. The plan is to sell the building and relocate services to the Dolphin Centre on a much reduced scale. This is to come at the cost of 25 jobs within Library Services and I am appalled that when the going gets tough, the council's get cutting. Instead of reducing the costs to the upper hierarchy of said council, it is the front line staff that are being sent packing. In my opinion services such as libraries should be the last thing to be hit when making cuts. Libraries have an environment that encourages thinking, reading and writing and allows imagination to run wild. Darlington Council will make their decision this Wednesday in a Special Cabinet meeting and I hope for the sake of learning and culture, they see fit to save this building and better still save the creative environment that comes with libraries.

Social Media

For those that don't know I have been blocked by Facebook, this has happened 3 times in as many days. Facebook says that is due to being reported and in my opinion I most probably know who by. But never the less, I will continue to inform people of what I do and what I think by other means. Twitter and Blogger are to become my main source of communication and to be truthful Facebook was beginning to get on my nerves anyway. Fake news at its finest. So from now on I will get family members and friends to post the links up to this blog and if you are on twitter you can follow me at @LukeJohnFrost where you can also send me private messages if you so wish to do so. I know there was a lot of people who relied on this on Facebook. But not to worry, if you are not on Twitter you can still request my email or catch me as some do in the Town Centre or Library.

Putting The Record Straight

Just to make something clear, I am not against investment in our area, far from it. I have signed many support comments for developments such as Aldi, Parade of Shops on the Industrial Estate and even supported the Hotel proposal and the Student apartments on Mandale Triangle. Saying that I have also objected to a few, such as the Mcdonalds on the centre and recently the two takeaways that where planned for Lanehouse Road, along with the proposal for 150 homes at the Barrage. In fact I am still the only objector on the Stockton Council Planning portal. I believe investment is great, when it is in the right area and with the right amount of demand, access and need. Over the years we have had a bombardment of planning applications go through Stockton Borough Council for south of the Tees developments that has seen the population swell and the infrastructure buckle under the weight of bad management and developers who constantly cut corners to make a quick pound or two. In the pas...

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