Sainsbury's Thornhill

At The Trinity, we are dedicated to tackling food waste, strengthening community bonds, and providing essential support to those in need. Our mission is simple: to rescue surplus food from local businesses and redistribute it to families and individuals who can benefit from it. By reducing food waste, we help alleviate hunger while fostering a spirit of togetherness and care within our community. Our enterprise operates on the belief that no one should go without food, and no edible food should go to waste. Through partnerships with local businesses and communities, The Trinity is creating a sustainable solution to food waste to help build a stronger, more connected community. We believe in local food surplus to help local people.

We support 3 free food markets in the North Cardiff, and Tremorfa areas. We currently serve between 200- 250 households each week. We welcome anyone who needs help and support and regularly get referrals from the NHS, social services and the wider council. Our markets are on Sundays, 15:30, at St Philips church, Tremorfa Tuesdays, 10:00, at St Marks church, Gabalfa Saturdays, 10:00, at St Marks church, Gabalfa All Welcome

We live at an independent living scheme for over 55's, we are mostly disabled and have health problems. St Clements is a complex of 34 studio and 1 bed flats, formerly it was an assisted living complex, now it has been reassigned as “independent living” We collect food from Neighbourly which we share out to those who need it and we hold a coffee morning every other week and bingo every week. We also garden together and enjoy sitting and chatting out in our lovely communal gardens. Many of our residents are on low incomes so we can help them out with the donated food. It was once livelier and had more social activities, but these have sadly diminished due entirely to the ages and infirmities of the residents and post pandemic etc. Most of the residents are disabled or have long-term illnesses. We aren't the best at social media so there aren't many photographs but the one thing the majority of the residents briefly come out of their homes for is food! The food is so looked forward to, men will often ask if there are any cakes. It makes us happy that they have food. The food has brought people in our complex together and when they come to get their food they chat to each other. Sometimes when we get a lot of bread produce from M&S we take surplus to St Vincent’s de Paul ( a charity for the homeless) the shop is situated in a very underprivileged area, so bread donations are gone within the hour.