Sainsbury's Farnley Local

Rethink Food is an award winning non-profit organisation recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 social enterprises in the NatWest SE100 Index 2025...on a mission to create a generation of healthy, food-literate, and environmentally conscious young people. We intercept and make sense of food surplus. Educate and empower people to live food secure lives. Redistributing to primary schools, families and those that need it. We also offer education to make the food system fair and sustainable.

Our organisation was created in October 2020 during the coronavirus period to support our community with foodbank/foodshare, jobs and accommodation, also we offer various community events,programmes and projects funded by various organisations such as Leeds community foundation, Leeds city council and central government, Arnold Clark Community Fund.We have given out up to date free food percel to support families in hardship worth more than £150,000.00, also our recent partnership with Neigbourly,Fareshare, collection of food items from M&S Foods Tesco,Asda,Morrisons,Aldi, and Hamara Health Living Leeds have really boosted up our foodshare programme feeding the community, tackling food waste witjin our community, our challenges is the logistics collection and distribution,and we now have a van to support 100% our weekly for our mobile van foodbank/foodshare programmes for collection and redistribution of this food items as to continue to to help people in deprived areas going through hard times, every charity and community group are stretched and we need more support that support now more than ever before.

We are a community group which has been set up to help work towards a more intergrated and sociable Armley Town Street. Our aim is for Armley Town Street and beyond to be a safer and family friendly shopping experience for all who live, work and play here. We are an umbrella group which support the establishment of sub groups to work on separate aspects of the community development. Examples of the subgroups are an Armley in Bloom group, and Armley Festival and entertainments Team, a litter picking and social impact team and a business support group. We are a volunteer group so we are relying on the expertise and time of individuals within our community to help to make this a cohesive and successful and sustainable project.