We have a new community
We have a new community
Since before Tummies Not Trash had even applied to be a charity, our collectors had communicated largely via WhatsApp groups. This seemed like a natural and easy way to communicate, especially when you turned up to a collection to discover waaaaay more food than you could carry or distribute and had to send out an urgent SOS call to any other collectors in the area.
As we grew and the teams expanded, we then wanted to have specific groups for each store so that information could be shared without everyone being bombarded with irrelevant (to them) information. So while researching the WhatsApp community feature for our volunteers, it made perfect sense to also have a mechanism to communicate with all of our supporters and wider community.
Due to the nature of our collections and drop offs at our partnership organisations, information about Tummies Not Trash was largely reliant on word of mouth so we discovered that lots of people had no idea about the work we were doing, where we dropped the food to, and even worse, often didn’t see social media posts about available food until days after it was dropped off!
So we have decided to set up an announcements WhatsApp specifically for our community.
It’s more secure – when you join, your number is only shared with the community admins. Not the whole group.
We will share updates of where and when food is available to collect, hopefully helping us to save more and distribute more effectively.
You’ll be the first to know about updates.
You’ll have the opportunity to get involved at Tummies Not Trash events.
So we hope you’ll join us and enjoy being part of the Tummies Not Trash community