2. Yhteinen pöytä –
Shared Table

3. Yhteinen pöytä (Shared Table) 2012-
is founded, funded and owned by the City of Vantaa and Vantaa Parish Union since 2012
City of Vantaa is the only known city which has made it possible to logisticate surplus food in a big scale
City does not give food aid to people directly but makes it possible in the food aid network
by creating an efficient and good quality logistical service
and supporting community building capacities in the network  
to stimulate citizen activities in Vantaa area especially in the group of low income and or the socially excluded
The Food Bank or “Surplus Food Terminal” gives work to about 4+25 people a year (subcidiced employment) and to about volunteers a year
Inspiration comes from Berliner Tafel -consept and Foedevarebanken of Copenhagen.

4. The Centralized Service of Surplus Food
The Development of Participatory Action in Food Aid Network
DONORS
STORES
S-ryhmä
K-ryhmä
LIDL
FACTORIES & WHOLE
SALERS
CENTRALIZED LOGISTICAL SERVICE
& TERMINAL
COOLER ROOMS
COOLER VANS
EMPLOYEES
TRAINEES
EVENTS
Network delivers (40) the food aid
20 NGOs
7 Lutheran congregations
5 Citizen centers
Youth centers
Other churches etc.
LAHJOI
TETTU HÄVIKKI
RUOKA
KAUPAT
TEHTAAT
TUKUT
Educational cooperation
Community building course
3 times a year
Creating and supporting the community lunches
Start-ups
Consultations
Developing bread lines into more communal ways of food aid
Workshops, conversations, audits, information etc.

5. The main goals of Shared Table are
to sustain a centralized logistical service of the surplus food in Vantaa and reduce significantly food waste
to sustain an active network between companies, public and third sector (NGOs) and church plus educational institutions
to strengthen multi-professional cooperation in the network
to support community building capacities in the network
to create more community lunches
create and sustain work places in the terminal
in order to
better involve the delivers and recipients of food aid in the society and to
develop policies and functions with them
improve their wellbeing
reduce loneliness by shared meals and by all means of citizen activity
create meaning to one’s lives through work – paid or voluntary.

6. Surplus Food Terminal and the logistics to the network
Hävikkiterminaali
Surplus Food Terminal and the logistics to the network

7. Food gathers people together - Community increases well being
In Shared Table this large network can concentrate to their own work, to the wellbeing of a citizen and different activities.
The network gives away the food aid and many of them organize community lunches, which we especially encourage.
Sustainable food aid system includes also welfare influences in health, nutrition, food safety and societies.
It is paramount that food aid is high quality food and not waste.
Eating together is an everyday social action and can strengthen communities.
Equality is an important part of it.

8. Social Intergration
Traditionally food aid is given in bags outside or inside and congregations sometimes have organized public lunches. Shared Table have increased the number of community lunches in past year also outside congregations
We do not want to create more “breadlines”
The social workers of Vantaa are also interested in working in our diverse network of citizen centers and congregations. In this way they might reach the people who never come to the public authorities
We also already work with 2 different Universities of Applied Sciences (Diak and Laurea)
Diaconia University and our own Diacon lead a course of Community Building for our network (Gable Method).

9. Strength from Community

10. Number of Stores collected daily 20 Number of Food Factories 4
 Shared Table in Numbers 2017
3 vans + terminal
Number of Stores collected daily 20
Number of Food Factories 4
Number of Wholesalers 7
Amount of places in the network weekly
about 40
Number of community lunches in the network
about 20 in a week
Number of volunteers in the terminal
5-10 at a time
in the register about 50
(Subcidiced) employment in the terminal in total
Permanent and temporary
Velvoitetukityö
Palkkatukityö
Työkokeilu
Kuntouttava työtoiminta
about 25 in a year 12 5 3
How many people benefits from us?
about 5000 in a week
Surplus food delivered in a week
about kg
Surplus food delivered in a year
about 1 million kilos
Cost of a surplus food kilo compared to total costs
about cents per kilo