A COMMUNITY project providing food for those in need around Rosyth is on the lookout for temporary premises to continue operating during COVID-19.

EATS Rosyth has been helping Fife Council and Fife Voluntary Action provide emergency food packs to the vulnerable and those self-isolating during recent weeks.

They have been backed by more than £100,000 of Scottish Government and National Lottery funding in recent weeks helping not just Rosyth but Inverkeithing and all the surrounding South West Fife villages.

EATS Rosyth normally runs a community hub sharing surplus food so they’ve been well prepared to help those in need in their community at this time but their Aberlour Street premises have been too small for their volunteers and staff to work safely.

During the pandemic, they have been operating from Camdean Community Centre but with plans to re-open the building for its usual activities in August, the project is now looking for a new site which they think they will need until the end of the year.

Ideally, it would be a large hall with a small kitchen space.

Project manager Karen Dorrat told the Press: "Camdean was always a temporary measure and some activities there will start to come back.

"Our Aberlour premises have been too small for us to do what we've needed to do, just the storage space alone isn't big enough right now, so the hall would need to be reasonably big!

"Fife Council are also trying to help us find somewhere and ideally if we could also have a small kitchen space that would be great as we do distribute cooked meals too.

"I think the problem now is places are trying to get activities going again so there are not as many spaces available as before but I am sure there is some sort of solution out there!"

On an average week, EATS Rosyth is providing parcels for between 150-200 people. They're also dishing out around 50 cooked meals a day.

Their funding also goes towards helping other community pantries in the South-West Fife area.

The project has also just purchased a van to help with all-important deliveries.

"We've needed the van for a long time but I feel it's come just in the nick of time!" Karen added.

"We relied on volunteers' cars and we really only had a bike with a trailer on the back!

"It helps so much picking up donations as the surplus we receive is very bulky stuff."

If you are a commercial business with suitable property available which EATS Rosyth could use, email info@eatsrosyth.org.uk or call 07782 848705.