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Foodbank saved by Tripe Marketing Board
This food bank was going under. Then a group of hobby writers found an Amazon infinite money glitch
The UK’s biggest food bank has been saved by an amateur writing group who cashed in on Amazon Black Friday loophole
If you could print your own money, what would you do with it? This Black Friday, a group of hobby writers discovered themselves in that position, at Amazon’s expense – and decided to save a food bank.
The We Care food bank in south London was facing permanent closure in November after a £33,000 energy bill. Its founders feared what would happen to the thousands of vulnerable people it helped.
Now it will be able to open for another year as a result of a Robin Hood-esque fundraising odyssey which includes a former prime minister, a group of friends calling themselves the Tripe Marketing Board, and an accidental goldmine found in the world’s fifth-biggest company.
This is the almost-unbelievable story of how the UK’s biggest food bank was saved.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/activism/this-food-bank-was-going-under-then-a-group-of-hobby-writers-found-an-amazon-infinite-money-glitch/
The UK’s biggest food bank has been saved by an amateur writing group who cashed in on Amazon Black Friday loophole
If you could print your own money, what would you do with it? This Black Friday, a group of hobby writers discovered themselves in that position, at Amazon’s expense – and decided to save a food bank.
The We Care food bank in south London was facing permanent closure in November after a £33,000 energy bill. Its founders feared what would happen to the thousands of vulnerable people it helped.
Now it will be able to open for another year as a result of a Robin Hood-esque fundraising odyssey which includes a former prime minister, a group of friends calling themselves the Tripe Marketing Board, and an accidental goldmine found in the world’s fifth-biggest company.
This is the almost-unbelievable story of how the UK’s biggest food bank was saved.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/activism/this-food-bank-was-going-under-then-a-group-of-hobby-writers-found-an-amazon-infinite-money-glitch/
For those who've never been introduced to the joys of tripe, brace yourselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
For some reason the Big Issue article doesn't link to the Tripe Marketing Board's excellent Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/TripeUK - nor its highly educational website at https://tripemarketingboard.co.uk/
A few samples from its "About" page:
Pest control: Plagued by infestations of cockroaches, rats or other household pests? Simply leave a bowl of tripe out overnight and in the morning, hey presto, problem solved. The pests are either dead or guaranteed never to return.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition: Prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition were forced to either eat tripe or be burnt at the stake. Many chose the latter.
Grab a slice: The first tripe takeaway, Tripe Hut, opened in Manchester in 1979. It closed the following year.
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