Shop And Donate

Shop and Donate is a social supermarket existing to tackle the hunger crisis in the UK. It’s for people in deprived areas who are experiencing food poverty.  4.7 million of adults in the UK are suffering food insecurity (9% of households).  2.5 million adults are suffering food insecurity due to lack of money to buy food.  UK churns out 15 million tonnes of food waste a year while 8.4 million people. struggle to afford food = entire population in London.  1/3 of food produced in the world goes to waste.  240,000 tonnes of food is wasted by UK supermarkets every year. During the pandemic, we offered our local community a Telephone Befriending project. Data gathered, 85% of our residents wanted a community kitchen, 87% cookery courses, and 91% community garden. We need funding to set up our social enterprise to meet that demand. This involves setting up a social supermarket, community kitchen and restaurant, and community garden. In light of this, we have assessed our need as £5,000 for the community kitchen, £3,000 for the community garden, £2,000 for the community restaurant, £40,000 for the social supermarket, £10,000 for a van to deliver food, and £5,000 for online healthy eating course lessons via zoom, including ingredients, chef costs, shipping boxes, etc.