Lidl Aberdare - Ffordd Tirwaun

We are a volunteer run Pay-As-You-Feel shop offering food, toiletries and household products to members of our community. Our aims are: To reduce food poverty To reduce food waste To educate our children about healthy living in order to make good food choices To up-skill our volunteers with experiences and courses which could support them in work. Our pay-as-you-feel shop will be open to any member of the local community. We hope to also put together ready made breakfast and packed lunch boxes which would give families everything that they need to eat healthy, filling meals for at least a week.

Who we are, where we work from and who we help: We bring together our neighbours at the Ty Gwaunfarren older people’s social housing scheme, Merthyr Tydfil, through our Pantry and by cooking healthy meals in our communal kitchen and eating them together in our communal lounge. We collect surplus food from M&S and Lidl, which we share out amongst our neighbours. We also cook meals most days, including Christmas Day. Most of the residents here live alone so the meals bring us together to eat healthy food together as a community and it helps reduce loneliness and isolation.

We offer a community shop in Maerdy RCT. Households are able to obtain food items, ambient, fresh, chilled and frozen, using a points system. This ensures that everyone gets a fare share of the items available. We need surplus food items to ensure that we can continue this very needed service for our community.