Fa’side Community Kitchen delivers meals to more than 500 people every week. It aims to support the community to alleviate the pressure of food insecurity and food poverty, reduce isolation and relieve hardship, working alongside community partners to do so. To do this, it delivers fresh meals to those in need and offers activities that will improve people’s mental health. The community kitchen was set up last year following the work of Duncan McBride and Joyce Thomson, who cooked about 20,000 meals during the first lockdown last spring as part of Tranent’s resilience effort in response to the coronavirus pandemic.