Lidl Rosehill

Sustainable Merton’s Community Fridge is located at Morden Baptist Church. We redistribute local surplus food back into the community, reducing food waste and supporting access to food. The Community Fridge is open to everyone, just turn up! Opening times: Monday 14:00 - 15:00 Wednesday 16:30 - 17:30

We are a group of volunteers in the London Borough of Sutton helping families in need by distributing fresh healthy food boxes every week. Sutton Community Project operates @ Thomas Wall Centre (52 Benhill Ave, Sutton SM1 4DP) in the heart of Sutton. Our Library cafe is open to the public every Tuesday from 2-5:30pm where free tea, coffee and healthy snacks are available for Neighbours to enjoy. Food distribution starts from 3pm. £1 donation is requeste on the front desk at arrival (this is a donation not compulsory, so you can collect a food box even when you don't have £1). A founding principle is to love our neighbours, end food poverty, and inspire communities to live in a more environmentally sustainable way. Our vision is to reduce food waste and alleviate poverty by redistributing more surplus food to families and people struggling due to the cost-of-living crisis, homelessness, and the Russian/Ukraine war, and support the community through facilitating and working with services offering debt advice & job clubs through CAP (Christian Against Poverty), parent support, and well-being courses. Our values are to provide a strong shared foundation to help our Neighbours, alleviate food poverty in the UK, and inspire our community to more environmentally friendly sustainable living for a better future for all. We also encourage and promote integration, especially with our many newly arrived Hong Kong volunteers supporting them and providing references for them as they settle in the UK. We would love to see the diverse community in our borough transformed by providing a healthy balanced food box and creating a safe community space where people can be listened to and get ongoing support while they are going through a difficult and testing time. These include families on low income, the elderly and those who feel isolated, the unemployed, adults/children with special needs, with physical & mental health issues, refugees (particularly affected by war/conflict), and affected by the ongoing cost of living crisis. We are working in partnership with The Felix Project and Critical Support / City Harvest who saves surplus fresh food and distributes it to many charities, schools, and projects in London. Donations from local schools, churches, businesses and residents allows us to make up around 120-150 healthy balanced food boxes every week to distribute to those in need who are referred by Citizen Advice, Food Banks & local charities / community groups. Since the project's launch, the service users believe that they have become more sociable, their general well-being has been improved and they are more able to solve problems in life, many have become volunteers. Our goal is to see our community transformed - for the lives of the poor & the neediest in our community to be alleviated from poverty, become more independent and realise their full potential, learn to lead more sustainable living and give back to society for a better community.

We are a volunteer run group focused on reducing food waste and supporting local families in need. Our mission is simple: to make sure no one in our community goes hungry while tackling the growing problem of food surplus. Thanks to our partnerships with Neighbourly, Fareshare and Caboodle, we have benefited from strong relationships with local supermarkets and food providers—including M&S, Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Nando's, KFC, Co-op, Lidl, Aldi, Pret a Manger, and Gail’s Bakery—we rescue surplus food and redistribute it to those who need it most via personal contacts and our Partner Organisations. This gives us the ability to provide varied, nutritious food parcels at no cost to families and individuals facing food insecurity. In addition to fresh food collections, we also stock a community cupboard with ambient and non-perishable items, enabling members of our community to access support anonymously and with dignity. Our recipients are identified through word of mouth and referrals from local schools and community organisations. Each week, we supply the equivalent of 2250 meals to local families and indiviuals as well as primary schools and community groups - ensuring that anyone who needs food can access it easily. Together, we are building a stronger, more sustainable community where food is shared, not wasted.