We love to see news of how Community Groceries are helping residents and families being shared across the UK.
Follow the links below to read some of the latest articles about what’s happening.

‘Did I eat or did I put the heating on?’ – how one Cheshire mum was plunged into poverty
Cheshire Live – 10 Jul 2022
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Mum forced to choose between heating and eating after finding herself in debt
Liverpool Echo – 10 Jul 2022
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New Blackpool store to offer £30 of groceries for £4 as cost of living crisis bites
Lancs Live – 8 Jun 2022
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This is where families in Blackpool will soon be able to do a weekly food shop for £4
Lancashire Post – 7 Jun 2022
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This is where families in Blackpool will soon be able to do a weekly food shop for £4
Blackpool Gazette – 7 Jun 2022
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Community Grocery Warrington store has opened at Life Church
Warrington Guardian – 25 May 2022
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Man considering leaving Merseyside area due to cost of living crisis
Liverpool Echo – 16 Apr 2022
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New Burnley shop will sell affordable food and offer support
In Your Area – 13 Apr 2022
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Opening of new community grocery store will cut cost of weekly shop for struggling Burnley families
Burnley Express – 12 Apr 2022
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A bridge between a foodbank and a supermarket
Capital North West News – 11 Apr 2022
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‘We Run Grocery Stores That Only Charge $4 For a Weekly Shop’
Newsweek – 24 Mar 2022
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Telford charity says ‘work poverty’ hitting full-time employed
BBC News – 8 Feb 2022
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‘We never turn anyone away’: Food store where struggling Teessiders can shop for £3 to open
Teeside Live – 8 Feb 2022
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Deprived community where people ‘exist not live’ trying to fight back
Liverpool Echo – 29 Dec 2021
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Lincoln Community Grocery store benefits local people with reduced food shop
The Linc – 5 Nov 2021
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Struggling families can get weekly shop for £3 at new community grocery
Shropshire Star – 27 Oct 2021
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New Lincoln community grocery store tackles food poverty
The Lincolnite – 5 Oct 2021
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Queues form at opening new community shop set up to tackle food poverty in Lincoln
Lincolnshire Live – 5 Oct 2021
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New cut-price community grocery shop coming to Lincoln next week
The Lincolnite – 27 Sep 2021
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Manchester charity helps feed families for just £5 a year
Mancunian Matters – 17 Jun 2021
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13% rise in food parcels handed out during pandemic in Yorkshire and the Humber
ITV News – 22 Apr 2021
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The Foundation Community Grocery has opened for the people of Sheffield.
BBC Look North – 14 Apr 2021
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Store that ‘bridges the gap between supermarkets and food banks’ opens in Redcar
Teeside News – 18 Apr 2021
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Inside Greater Manchester’s trendiest food bank
Manchester Evening News – 28 Mar 2021
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Struggling Bolton residents will be able to get their food shop for just £3
Bury Times – 18 Mar 2021
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Brenda Edwards introduces the story of a new kind of community grocery store in Manchester, run by Christian charity The Message Trust.
BBC Songs of Praise – 14 Mar 2021
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Struggling Ragworth families will be able to do the food shop for just £3
Teesside Live – 9 Mar 2021
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Wigan’s new community grocery opens offering big shop for just £3
Wigan Post – 4 Mar 2021
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“It’s a place where people can come with a sense of dignity” – New Community Grocery offers £3 food shops to Salford families
Salford Now – 19 Feb 2021
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The new Wigan store where struggling families can do a big shop for just £3
Manchester Evening News – 18 Feb 2021
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Cut-price community grocery to open in Wigan to help shoppers affected by pandemic
Wigan Today – 18 Feb 2021
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New grocery store in the heart of Salford helps residents do family shops for just £3
Mancunian Matters – 6 Feb 2021
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Wythenshawe supermarket where a shop costs £3 to open three new sites in Greater Manchester
Manchester Evening News – 19 Jan 2021
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The amazing new Wythenshawe store where you can get loads of food for £3
Manchester Evening News – 17 Oct 2020
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