Lidl Poole Branksome

The average UK family wastes £810 a year by throwing away food and drink, and £3 billion is wasted by food sectors. Community Fridges help tackle food waste by redistributing food from households and businesses to the community. Branksome Community Fridge is located in Branksome Library and Rossmore Community Fridge is located in Rossmore Library, both in Poole and are run by a team of community minded volunteers. It serves the people of Branksome by providing good quality food that would otherwise have been thrown away.

We are a not for profit social supermarket based in West Moors who provide support to over 1600 households in our community. We tackle food insecurity, social isolation and the environmental impact of food waste in our area. We source our products from surplus redistribution companies and charities, we save end of day goods from supermarkets and local businesses; We have an allotment to grow our own produce, promote home growing and accept donated surplus fruit and veg grown locally too. We also purchase products like freezer goods to ensure our service users have a wide selection of food and goods available to them at every visit. We operate on a membership basis to be able to monitor user trends and create a unified community feel for our service users. Our Larder is set up like any other 'shop' ensuring all service users have dignified access to a wide selection of food and household products. We do not pre allocate goods, our members choose what they like and will use which helps minimise further waste. Members visit once per week, there is a £7 visit fee to be paid when accessing Castleman Community Larder. We use this £7 to contribute towards the running costs like rent (£800pcm). We also use this to purchase any food that we cannot source from end of day, local business or in our regular collections. Our members take home UNLIMITED fruit, veg and bread. We promote healthy eating and encourage our members to use vegetables in meals as often as possible. 3 RED ITEMS - Items from the Fridge/Freezer like family size packs of minced beef, fresh meat and cheese, butter etc And 12 YELLOW items which consist of staple foods, tins, jars, cereal, pasta and household / toiletries like toilet roll, cleaning products, nappies etc Our priorities are focused on saving waste in our community and giving all of our service users a friendly, dognified and welcoming environment when they choose to visit us.

- Supporting the local community - Collecting unsold food from supermarkets in the area - Carrying out a surplus food distribution 4 days a week on two sites - Working with other groups in the area to support the communities we live in - Supported by and working with 70x7