Supporting the Local Community  

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 services
• Aims to move away from the foodbank 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 customer care, health and safety, food hygiene as well as providing experience in retail, thus upskilling 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 conception of healthy food
• Improve emotional wellbeing and social isolation through the hub model of the pantry.