The food service by year and by month: what the dates reveal

The trust’s outdoor food service folder holds photographs from 34 different days. Counting them by year and month gives the clearest picture of when the service is recorded.

Dates in this post are the dates in the file names of the photographs on the volunteers’ phones.

By year

• 2021: 3 days (June and October)
• 2022: 8 days
• 2023: 11 days, the highest
• 2024: no dated photographs
• 2025: 6 days (April, May, June)
• 2026: 6 days up to 3 October

By season

December 2022 has three photographed days and January 2023 has four, so seven of the 34 days fall in the cold months of one winter. The blanket folder also runs from 4 December 2021 to 8 December 2024. The records suggest that winter is the busiest season for the trust’s street work.

The gap in 2024

No dated food service photographs exist for 2024 in the files supplied. This does not prove that no service took place; it means no pictures were kept or supplied. The trust will not claim a service it cannot show, and it asks volunteers to record every day from now on.

What a donor can take from this

The service is long-running but not daily in the records. It is concentrated in some months, and it is strongest where volunteers have kept pictures. If you want to help in a quiet month, say so when you call, because that is when a volunteer is most needed.

The trust number is 97036 30893 (call and PhonePe).