He first started to see the island in a new way when he volunteered at a council-backed homeless shelter. He is, he insists, not religious and not political – but he saw his Pop Up Soup Kitchen as a way of helping to address one of the island’s most intractable problems. “They cook for the soup kitchen, so we take a lot of produce there. The soup kitchen now has its own food drop-off points, with local businesses getting involved. The soup kitchen has become something of a local phenomenon, filling a few gaps the austerity council budget can’t reach.

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2017 10:02 UTC