The Co-operative Food - Corsham, Macie Drive

A place for local residents to collect food that would be thrown away at the end of the day by supermarkets or shops. Re-cycling excess food for our community. We have now moved to the Round House in Church Street. Melksham Town Council have given us the use of the building. This has enabled us to open five days a week. We are not a foodbank our primary aim is to re-distribute food. However we welcome visits from those who could do with help to access free food. We work in partnership with several supermarkets and allotment holders. Our 'Shop' is open five days a week. We are very lucky in that the shop self regulates, those who need food arrive early, when they have taken what they need those residents who hate food waste come along and collect what they want. We don't ask for any evidence of benefits we aim to Save Food From Waste, and that is a first Aim.

We are a large volunteer based Charity operating across the Wiltshire area. Our volunteers use donated food to share with local families, individuals and organisations who are most in need. We are currently under pressure to meet the increasing need to help people who cannot afford food, whilst also experiencing a big decrease in the amount of food we receive due to less available food and many more people buying food from the reduced price sections. If you are a business with surplus food, would like to make a donation, volunteer or are in need of some food, please contact us.

We are a local group of friends from Corsham Baptist Church. We began a soup Kitchen style service to our local community back in January 2020 encouraging isolated and lonely people to come in for a bowl of hot soup and a chat. When the Lockdown happened we had to close the church to our friends .We decided to continue to help our community by collecting food from local supermarkets by way of their food share programme.Using volunteers we currently distribute approximately 35-40 food parcel boxes each week to households that have asked for help. Not only are we able to provide help with their weekly food requirements, but our volunteers are able to build relationships and offer help where its needed or we can refer them onto professional bodies better equipped to help. The people we are helping is slowly growing and we are looking for more outlets to help us with support by providing any spare provisions they may be getting rid of. We have fridge and freezer space and so are able to take foodstuffs that will last a bit longer .