Free breakfast will be provided to Stirling University students every Monday in the chaplaincy on campus. The program will start on November 25, courtesy of Global Justice Stirling.
The breakfast will include accessible options to meet the food needs of students and will run from 8-10 am on Mondays.
Global Justice Stirling will be the primary volunteers behind the program. In the future, additional volunteer opportunities may become available.
Global Justice said they were looking into options to continue the program over the Christmas break despite the chaplaincies closure.
They stated that they were motivated to organise this program after a student approached them about the discontinuation of the prior free breakfast plan.
Global Justice has worked on food issues before, including food accessibility options on campus and the community fridge.
The old free breakfast plan took place during the second semester of the 2022-2023 year. Provided by the Students’ Union, that program provided numerous breakfast options to students every Wednesday and was arranged through Studio.
With Studio’s closure in early 2023 due to the discovery of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC), it did not return the following year.
The Students Union commented that the plan “was part of our wider programme which is still in place and aims to tackle the cost-of-living crisis which impacts students as well as the rest of society.”
They also commented on the new free breakfast provided by Global Justice Stirling, saying, “it is pleasing to hear that Global Justice are planning to offer support for students in this way.”
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