Hope Food Club tackles ongoing food poverty through giving access to healthy, affordable food
TACKLING FOOD POVERTY IN WEST NORTHANTS
As well as providing food for hundreds of our own foodclub members each week, Hope facilitates an alliance of local food projects in West Northants (FAAWN), for which we source, collect, store and distribute food for its members.
We also administer government and other funding allocated to buy food and other products for the alliance to distribute.
We welcome approaches from food manufacturers, packagers, producers, farmers and distributors to supply food or other products to alliance members and use in Hope Foodclub
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Our own food aid service: Hope foodclub
In Hope's ‘social supermarket’ or Food Club, people on low incomes and benefits can join a club by paying a £10 a month membership fee, allowing them them to get food and other goods for free, 52 weeks a year
Some of the veg supplied is being grown by Hope in its gardening projects - see the Hope Gardening page on this site.
We distribute food through community centres and hubs in Northampton.
Wednesday
Church on the Heath, 10-11
Welland Way,
Kings Heath,
NN5 7NB
Salvation Army, 12 - 1
Tower Street,
Spring Boroughs,
NN12SN
Friday
Blackthorn Community Centre, 10- 11
Longmead Court
NN38QD
Brookside Hall Community Centre 11:30 -12:15
41 Billing Brook Road
Northampton
NN3 8QN
IF YOU NEED HELP CONTACT: adminfc@northamptonhopecentre.org.uk
If you know someone who might benefit, please encourage them to come along to a club.
If you meet the criteria of being on benefits, just come down and register at a session - its easy.
KEEP IN CONTACT WITH THE PROJECT THROUGH OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AT @HopeFoodClub
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Directory of other food aid providers available here
Or organised by day/time here
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WHAT WE NEED
We always need more food, from all sources. If you have access to any food, toilet rolls, etc, PLEASE donate them. Bring to our warehouse address below, or ring 01604 214300 to organise delivery.
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CAN YOU HELP?
We urgently need volunteers to help run this project. These can include corporate groups or individuals. Please contact us via volunteering@northamptonhopecentre.org.uk to make a real difference!
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We NEED donations of food, from any source, including churches, schools, shops and supermarkets - please contact us if you want to donate or bring to our warehouse - RiNG FIRST 01604214300.
Our warehouse is at Biz Space: Turn into Kingsfield Way, from Gladstone way, Dallington, Northampton, behind the old Oliver Adams factory site.Turn right at the sharp bend in Kingsfield way, then travel another 300m past a road on the left, then look out for loading bays on the left, unit H4/A, just before the entrance to the Biz Space car park at the end of this road on the left and opposite two entrances to another larger warehouse (Sign mentions meat) and a timber yard. Post code: NN57QF Enter the warehouse corridor through the loading bay; walk straight to the end of the corridor, then turn right. Warehouse at the end of the corridor, clearly signed. Look out for blue signs at the end of Kingsfield Road. If you have trouble finding us, ring 01604214300
Our vision about food
Read more about Hope's wider views on food here
Read more about the project here: Overview
Academic studies of food poverty and solutions can be found here
We don't run a food bank. Foodclub is a membership food club where people pay, in line with a growing realisation that food banks are not the only answer to chronic, ongoing food poverty:
For media coverage of this type of project, see here and here
For an academic review of foodclubs, read here
Our crowdfunding film tells you lots about how this project works. View it here
Watch another film about this work here
We have received funding from many partners, including since 2020 the Northamptonshire Community Foundation, WRAP, DEFRA, The National Lottery, Sylvia Adams trust, Martin Lewis Foundation and many others.
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Our work contributes to the multi-agency Sustainable Food Place partnership, which Hope co-ordinates. Read about that here
Why we need a local sustainable food strategy
We are members of the Independent Food Aid Network. and an accredited international member of the Good Food Organisations Canada network
To contact food club ring 08455 199371
Hope FoodClub is supported by
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