Community
Food
There are community run initiatives across Shropshire where low cost or free food is available.
Surplus food and community shops
Open tables and community fridges where surplus food is available on a Pay As You Feel basis - meaning you pay as much as you can or are willing to spend. These are often open to everyone and aimed at stopping food waste not ending food insecurity.
Shrewsbury Food Hub
Open to all, Pay As You Feel
Shrewsbury Food Hub run Foodshare tables where they invite everyone to come and help them stop surplus food being wasted!
See their Facebook page for the latest Foodshare timetable
Food Share Table, community café and much more @The Oak Street Centre.
Call 07538 709 299 or email osnosh@gmail.com with any questions.
Open to all, £1 donation for bag of surplus food.
Tea, coffee cake and advise from local organisations.
First Monday of each month, 1pm-2pm, Rockspring Community Centre, SY8 1SX
A zero waste project based in Highley. They run a surplus food box scheme with a suggested donation of £3 per box.
It is an appointment only event which is booked via the Facebook page.
Members sign up for a £5 annual membership. This gives access to do a £3 shop twice a week.
Mon: 9:30am – 6:00pm, Tues – Fri: 9:30am – 4:30pm. Run in partnership by The Message Trust and Lighthouse Church.
Contact
01952 935511
Reducing food waste by sharing good quality leftover food with the community. Pop in before your weekly shop. Minimum donation £1 for up to 5kg of food.
Monday to Friday 10 – 4pm 15 Lower Galdeford SY8 1RU
Brookside Community Centre, Telford.
Open Weds & Fri 10 am-12 noon.
Membership £5 per year. £2 shop gets you 5 items from their big double fridge.
Option to buy extra store cupboard staples at low cost.
Check Facebook for details.
Community Meals
Low cost or Pay As You Feel meals where the community eats together.
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Holding a community lunch every Tuesday. In which the community can come together and share a meal.
Please see their website for further details.
Mondays 9.30am - 2.30pm
A place to meet with friends old & new. Lunch served from 12:30pm.
No charge, donations welcome to cover costs.
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Lunch Club on Mondays and Wednesdays, Fish and Chips on Fridays.
Mayfair Meals home deliveries of nutritious meals.
Community growing
Garden projects where people can come and pick produce for free throughout the year
A not for profit community garden based in Shrewsbury. Now in its first year of growing, it hopes to provide free veggies to the community.
Free fruit, veg and herbs
Locations around Ludlow
Regular plant, seed and produce swaps
