Lidl Aylesbury - Buckingham Road (Opening 10/12/26)

Helping reduce waste and feed the community

We are Bridge the Gap! We are a community hub working to help ‘Bridge The Gap’ between the different members of our community. Our main activities include our weekly foodbank, drop-in cafe and Friday night Youth Hub. Bridge The Gap started back in 2016 in response to the needs of the local people. We are based in the heart of the Southcourt estate - an area of high social and economic deprivation, where people often struggle to make ends meet. Our founders, Louise and Graham Clarke, who still run Bridge The Gap to this day, started BTG as a way to help those in our local community who are in need. They originally started it as a cafe style set up, then in 2017 we partnered with The Trussell Trust (now Aylesbury Foodbank) to help with providing food parcels. We also sought supermarket donations via FareShare. When Covid hit, we became a real lifeline for our community and we saw our numbers increasing rapidly. This pushed us to change our format to the set up we have today. At Bridge The Gap we work to help people to help themselves. We are a safe space where people can build friendships and feel that they belong to a community. To us this is just as important as providing food and essentials. Contact ! To get involved or find out more please contact us at bridgethegap@southcourt.org or give us a call: Louise - 07349963509 Graham - 07349963510 To find out more about how you can support us, please contact Hannah at hannah@southcourt.org or 07768967334 To book a food parcel please call 07768566089 - if there is no answer, please leave a voicemail and we will call you back