ALDI BURY ST. EDMUNDS

Promoting understanding and education of all aspects of brain injury and all neuro conditions and providing information, support and services to acquired brain injury survivors, their families and carers in Suffolk and Norfolk.

Still Good Food aims to reduce the amount of food that is wasted by redistributing surplus food donations, mainly from large and small retailers, through our shops in Bury St Edmunds and Great Barton on a 'pay as you feel' basis. We accept donations from a number of local businesses, farmers and individuals and not only pass it onto our shop customers but also onto a number of local charities and organisations like food banks, community cafes, etc. Although our main aim is to reduce the amount of food that is wasted in the UK we are also very keen to support those on low incomes through providing good quality food at low cost. The project is run almost entirely by volunteers, from those manning the shop to all our collections and deliveries. We are always looking for new volunteers to help us to open more often, for longer hours and to ensure that less and less food is wasted and more and more food is redistributed.

My partner and I run a Facebook group of 5200+ people where we upload and distribute surplus food from local cafe's/shops and people themselves can upload excess food from their own homes. Please feel free to join our Facebook page to follow our growth, progress or perhaps even come to The Hub and see us! We work with a local preschool which we know through our children to distribute more food around the area in which is resides as it is in a different part of town and therefore opens up to redistribution in another area. We want to expand this to further shops/supermarkets and places to help out local community of Haverhill even more during this cost of living crisis. We operate from Charterhouse Industrial Estate where we have The Hub to enable us to do this in a safer more controlled environment away from our home address so we can focus on the group and increase it beyond it's current capacity with every passing week. We identify people through their locality to Haverhill (surrounding villages included) and their needs are not required to be known as our aim is to save food from going waste, it has the side affect of aiding people within our group too. We do not charge for what we provide however do accept donations towards running costs via a donation bucket and have an Amazon Wishlist for people to purchase items which support the Collections. For us it is about stopping food waste going to landfill and therefore any monetary return to us personally wouldn't sit right with us. We used to collect surplus food and distribute it through the Olio app for Tesco, Iceland and a few other smaller outlets however since January 2023 we have grown from there to use fare share and neighbourly but for us this is only the beginning of something which we want to increase as time goes on. A few Christmas's ago we had an article done on us by a local newspaper, the link for which is below. https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/haverhill/news/scheme-s-food-waste-heroes-help-to-feed-people-in-need-9233684/ We work with our kids preschool (Castlefields) who are part of Neighbourly, to collect from Aldi, lidl, sainsburys, B and Q so that they get all fresh produce/items that can be used within the preschool setting and we distribute what cannot be used there through the Facebook group. This is something that we are keen to continue to do and support. Outside of Neighbourly we also collect from Tesco, Waitrose, Bookers, Co-Op and other smaller shops which have local out reaches.