Bridging the gap between food banks and supermarkets

Community Groceries help keep families fed by providing access to affordable food and wrap-around support to those who need it most.

For anyone really struggling with the cost of living and putting food on the table, we’re here to help without the barrier of criteria or needs assessment. Inside every Community Grocery there’s a wide range of food, household, and toiletry essentials to choose from. Thanks to our partnerships with national suppliers, everything’s a fraction of the cost of the usual weekly shop.

 

Access support

Save money

Reduce waste

There’s so much more than food on offer. Stores host free wrap-around support for members, like mental health drop-ins, money management sessions, healthy cooking classes, job clubs and more. Each grocery is run by the award-winning charity, The Message Trust, in partnership with a local church. We put the ‘community’ in Community Grocery with coffee mornings and teams of staff and volunteers from the local neighbourhood who really care.

Thanks to our work rescuing and distributing surplus food, when someone shops at a Community Grocery they also play their part in protecting the environment and saving thousands of tonnes of food being wasted each year. Some food is close to or just past its ‘best before’ date but is perfectly fine to eat. Other items have packaging mistakes or come from supermarket ordering errors. All of it would have gone to landfill. We believe people on a budget shouldn’t be priced out of making green choices; Community Groceries make planet-friendly options open to all.