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About us
Our vision is to create a sustainable network of pantries providing low-cost food and wrap around services. The Pantry is a dignified approach empowering communities to help themselves. The Pantry will support up skilling the community through volunteering and employability opportunities, with the shop itself being utilised as a training facility.
The Scottish Pantry Network will support the pantries by being the collective voice for change, we forge strong partnerships to support the development of the hub model, creating a tailored experience for local communities. The Network will provide ongoing support to the pantries through compliance, lobbying and creating links with food suppliers.
1. The prevention of poverty and the relief of financial hardship by providing food security to those who need it most and being disadvantaged due to unemployment, low income, lone parent, health, and social standing.
2. The advancement of community development by acting on behalf of the Network of Pantries, sourcing food to ensure there is enough in the supply chain, lobbying government, providing a regulatory function, and sharing best practice across the Network.
3. Advancement of environmental protection by reducing food waste locally and nationally.
4. Advancement of education by Increasing access to skills, training and employment prospects in relation to developing and running a local pantry.
5. Advancement of health by improving health outcomes – particularly around the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, through social eating, improving emotional wellbeing and social inclusion through Pantries acting as community hubs, and by promoting access to nutritious meals and increase fruit and vegetable consumption.
6. Relief for those in need by providing access to key support such as money advice, credit unions, housing, health, employment and skills.
Supporting The Local Community
Members of the Scottish Pantry Network work in a variety of locations across the country. Please use the map provided to find your locally run and managed Pantry with Opening Times.
Please contact us if you are a local community food organisation interested in joining TSPN.
Pantry Ethos
For a small fee the pantry gives access to good quality food, the model works to help reduce people getting to crisis point by providing access to these vital services.
- Aims to move away from the food-bank model to a more dignified and sustainable model
- Community led, empowering communities
- Promotes access to nutritious food like meat, vegetables and fruit.
- Provide training for volunteers in areas such as customer care, health and safety, food hygiene as well as providing experience in retail, thus up skilling the community in preparation to move onto employment
- Reduced carbon footprint helping the climate change agenda. A large proportion of surplus food would normally end up in Landfill, however the Pantry helps to reduce this by distributing the surplus food.
Pantry Objectives
- Locally run and managed, putting the community at the heart of decision making.
- Provides access to low cost good quality nutritious food
- Helping reduce our climate footprint through the redistribution of surplus food
- Upskilling the community, improving employment prospects
- Improve health outcomes, through provision of healthy food
- Improve emotional wellbeing and social isolation through the hub model of the pantry.
- What Is A Pantry?
- Who Can Use Pantries?
- How Much Does A Pantry Shop Cost?
- How Many Time A Week Can I Visit?
- What Do You Get For £2.50 To £3.50
- What Kind Of Produce Do Your Pantries Have?
Pantries can be accesssed in local communitites where, for a small membership fee, heavily discounted food is available.
Many of the pantries mentioned on this website also provide guidance and support on topics related to food insecurity, such as bills, benefits, unemployment, and mental health.
Please contact your local pantry to learn about the support.
Anyone can utilise a pantry; you do not have to meet any criteria or have a certain level of income to do so.
The only thing that may prevent you from using a pantry is if you do not belong to their postcode.
Each pantry sets it’s own charge for a weekly shop, most range from £2.50 to £3.50
As many times as you need, please be sure to check the opening days and times on the Find Your Nearest Pantry Above.
You get around £10 – £15 worth of food.
Our pantry operates on a surplus basis, which means that the food they receive in bulk is not always consistent in product.
However, pantry’s will have a variety of food, ranging from frozen to no-frozen.
Healthy food is a priority in our pantries, therefore many pantries stock produce that will assure a healthy diet, not simply a low-cost one.
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