ALDI HIGHWORTH - LECHLADE RD

Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise called Glass Mill Social Enterprise C.I.C. This is more than food and is part of a platform called RSBA1 (Response, Sustain, Build, Achieve). A free supportive services platform to help people get back on their feet. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the happy stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, and clothing to people facing a challenge. Whatever you can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. As everything given and everybody counts. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun food donations can include fresh fruit, vegetables, bakery items and non perishables. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with your food donations. Therefore we need your help to ensure we can supply the demand in this crisis. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained thus creating a loop cycle. We, therefore, are a platform for a voice to be heard in the community and share life changing stories. It would be great to have more partners become part of these stories in your local community. Looprun has also expanded into providing toiletries and brand new items of clothing. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: www.loopruninstore.org

We are FoodCycle, and our vision is to make food poverty, loneliness and food waste a thing of the past for every community. With community dining, week in, week out we feed the hungry and give company to the lonely in our communities; providing delicious meals and great conversation, and using food which would otherwise go to waste.

Highworth Community Larder opened on 31 Jan 2023 to help avoid the growing problem of food waste & provide support to anyone needing it by redistributing surplus food which would otherwise go to landfill. As at 21 April 2026 we have redistributed 44.8 tonnes of surplus produce. We wanted to do something positive & helpful for our town and we are aware that there are many families needing support, who are just about managing and some who are really struggling, having to choose between heating or eating. We were enthusiastically supported in the planning stage by Highworth Town Council, Highworth Community Partnership Group, local churches inc. the Bridge project, the drop off point for Swindon Food Collective, several local associations, individuals & Westrop Primary School. They all feel that there is a real need for a Community Larder in Highworth especially in the current economic climate. Our free larder makes a big difference to the whole community of Highworth but particularly those who are struggling, & we have become part of a circular economy by receiving surplus food from local businesses & individuals thereby avoiding waste, extra car journeys etc. We have the enthusiastic support of the Headteacher at Westrop Primary school who allows us the use of a meeting room, fridge & storage space. The school is ideally situated near the centre of town, the doctor’s surgery, pharmacy, & Tesco Express, with plenty of parking & therefore attracts passers-by as well as school families. We advertise in Highworth Link, our local community Magazine & Facebook and Instagram. In December 2024 we were successful in becoming a CIO (Registered Charity Number 1211437). We are open every Tuesday for everyone free of charge & without referral. Depending on the donations we have received there is usually a limit of 5 items/person in common with other Community Larders, but this is flexible depending on the volume of donations and people's needs. We're partnered with Hubbub who run Community Fridge networks & follow all their guidance & procedures including weighing food in & out. We offer an accountable & transparent service, publish regular reviews & updates to demonstrate how much food has been saved from landfill/wastage & how the larder has helped people in Highworth. We believe we make a real difference in our town, both for the environment & in supporting families, individuals & our Larder is a well-received & positive project. We have a good network of volunteers and our registration with Neighbourly is essential for us as to allow local stores to donate to us. Thanks to the generosity of Highworth Town Council we opened a drop in café (in addition to the larder) once a month during the winter months where we offer a warm safe place, free hot drinks and nibbles, and where we can offer signposting & info about local advice & support groups, especially as most support services are in Swindon 6 miles away.