Volunteers are collecting leftover food from stallholders at Stroud Farmers Market and giving it to Community Food Hubs in Stroud, Chalford, Brimscombe, Cashes Green, Rodborough and more. The initiative also invites shoppers to buy an extra product from stallholders and take it to the collection basket in 4 Seasons Market, Threadneedle Street, less than a minute’s walk from the market. Volunteers organised by local community hubs and the charity Earth Protector Communities will then go around the stalls after the market and collect any leftovers have not been sold. Kardien Gerbrand, who runs the farmer market, said: “I wholeheartedly support what you are doing whilst at the same time feeling a little sad that as a society we are in a situation where there are so many in need of food aid whilst a very small number of people are getting increasingly wealthy.”