Sainsbury's Exeter

Essentials bank is a non-profit organisation redistribute food and essentials to organisations, charities, schools, community groups, and individuals to support people in need and the homeless with life's essentials. Essentials Bank not just provide food but also toiletries, clothes and some specific things under request. Essentials bank provides socks, gloves, scarves, new underwares and hats. We also provide pet food (dogs, cats and other pets food under request). We have different kind of services: - Free of charge service. - Membership service with a small fee to keep our service sustainable, to cover operational costs such as: Warehouse space, freezers and chillers, Administration, vehicle maintenance and fuel. Essentials Bank was initially started on March 2020 covid time when people start losing their job and their house and they have faced difficulty to apply for universal credit and were struggling to get essentials like food, toiletries and etc. Donation Essentials Bank relies on the food donated by the public and food businesses – that’s why your food donations are absolutely vital to continue helping people in need. Our shopping priority list UHT Milk Tins of Meat Tins of Vegetables (sweet corn and peas) Tins of Soup Tins of Fruit Noodle and Pasta Cereals Jams and Spreads Coffee, Tea and Sugar Rice Pudding or Custer Tins of Tuna or mackerel Dog and Cat food We accept fresh, chilled or frozen food. We do also accept non-food items, including toiletries, and female sanitary items. we accept good quality clean clothing donation. So, If you are individual happy to drop off food or any essentials donations, please email us so we can arrange to collect. And, if you are a company, store, factory and would like to donate food or essentials please contact us. info@essentialsbank.org.uk We are volunteering our time providing the essentials for the happiness.

FoodCycle works across the UK to create three-course meals for people living in social isolation or with food poverty from food surplus. The Exeter project has been running for more than 8 years. We are always looking to help more people come and eat a community meal together. We serve every Tuesday evening at 6:30pm at The Mint Methodist Church in Fore Street, Exeter City Centre. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Exeter Community Fridge is situated at St Sidwell's Community Centre. The Exeter Community Fridge makes surplus food available to all within the community for free. The aim is to reduce food waste, save households and businesses money and to build community. Exeter Community Fridge is volunteer run day to day and at the moment we only redistribute food that our volunteers collect from local businesses. We hope to be able to start accepting household and local growers contributions soon. We are always on the look-out for more volunteers so please get in touch if you think you might be interested in getting involved. Our charity number is 1122697