Sainsbury's Peterborough

The Food Basket is a community fridge operating across Peterborough. We offer local fresh food to the community, reducing food waste and tackling food insecurity. The community fridge is open to all. There is no need to be in receipt of benefits and you do not need a referral or voucher to access this free service, just come along to your chosen session and bring a bag. Due to how we receive our food we cannot guarantee what we will have but in general it is a mix of fresh fruit and vegetables from farms and supermarkets and bakery goods such as bread and cakes. This can help with food costs and stop food going to waste, good for your pocket and the environment! Our Extra Helpings programme offers additional support for our patrons by linking with other organisations with specialist knowledge. We are currently working with Healthy You, Cross Keys Homes, and Woodgreen.

We collect surplus food including food which has reached its best before and use by date from suppliers. Using this food, we prepare and serve nourishing meals in our Pay As You Feel Café at Barn Hill Methodist Church every Saturdays 12pm-2pm alongside our Pantry and Community Fridge. Inspired by Adam Smith's 'Real Junk Food Café' in Leeds and frustrated at the amount of good food wasted whilst people go hungry, Second Helpings Stamford opened in October 2015 as a Church and Community Project. We take perfectly edible raw materials from supermarkets, farms and personal supporters in and around Stamford that would otherwise go to waste. This produce is available to the community daily from the Pantry and the Community Fridge, and in delicious, wholesome meals in the Saturday Café where we serve an average of 70 people each week. We are staffed by volunteers and all our food is available on a pay-as-you-feel basis. Stamford Methodist Church is a busy, family oriented church close to the town centre. Committed to inclusivity and social outreach the premises are used by a wide variety of groups from the congregation and the local community.

- Open Door Community Cafe and food hub - Community Support Hub: food bags, information and advice, hygiene products Why we do this: Each year in the UK we throw away nearly 15 million tonnes of food and drink. Nearly half of this is perfectly good to eat! Our Community Cafe enables businesses and individuals to waste less through the sharing of good quality food that’s within its use-by date. Food can be donated by both individuals and businesses. People in food poverty can benefit from what is available on the day. This is especially helpful for families with young children to help them eat more healthily. A benefit is that people come to the Cafe and a real community is forming so we are also helping with loneliness and isolation. Our volunteers are made up of local people so the café and food hub is helping them to give back to the community. The area of Millfield where the cafe/food hub is situated is in the 20% most deprived communities in the UK with a high migrant population and in recent history has faced many challenges in relation to drug and alcohol related crime, anti-social behaviour, and tenancy issues in houses of multiple occupation.