As the Council obtained funding from the grant from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and is looking to acquire a chilled food van to allow the expansion of operation of the Bread and Butter Thing in County Durham to five more new locations within the County. I would be responsible in identifying the 5 locations using data.
I met with Patrick who is a member of the team responsible for the project at the County Council and a representative from the Bread and Butter Thing to understand more of what I should do, what had been done, what is the target population and what data would be available.
Through the meeting, I understand that Bread and Butter Thing is a NGO that obtain food that are close to expiration and would otherwise end up in the landfill and provide a package of food item at an affordable price at 8.5GBP. People would sign up on a SMS message list, where they would receive an SMS prior to the delivery to sign up for the week's offering, if they are fully subscribed, they would receive the SMS earlier than the normal group so that they would have a better chance in being able to successfully sign up in the next week.
In the following weeks, I would provide suggestions on locations for new hubs and potential solutions to current problems.