Hope Food Club tackles ongoing food poverty through access to healthy, affordable food
TACKLING FOOD POVERTY WITH DIGNITY AND ENTERPRISE
In Hope's ‘social supermarket’ or Food Club, people on low incomes and benefits can join a club, allowing them to buy food and other goods at massively below the price paid in supermarkets - normally 25% of shop prices, each box now containing more items than before. We also give some things away free!
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.
Our partners are Growing Together Northampton, Free2Talk, Bellinge Community House and the Northampton Credit Union, now called Harvest Money, giving all club members access to banking and loans. We are also supported by NIKE and Cummins UK.
If you know someone who might benefit, please send them to us.
If you meet the criteria of being on benefits, just come down and register at a session
KEEP IN CONTACT WITH THE PROJECT THROUGH OUR NEW FACEBOOK PAGE AT @HopeFoodClub
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POP-UP SHOP TIMES
NEW: all on thursdays as of 2/5/19
9am-10:00am Blackthorn Good Neighbours Nursery,
Blackthorn Local Centre
NN3 8QH
11.00-12.00 Free2Talk Living Room
14 Park Square,
Fieldmill Road
Kingsheath,
NN5 7LQ
1.00-2:00pm Bellinge Community Centre
Billingmead Square,
Bellinge
NN3 9AQ
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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!
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 on Kingsfield Way Northampton, off Gladstone way, behind the old Oliver Adams factory, loading bays on the left, unit H4/A. Ring us IN ADVANCE to organise delivery on 08455 199371. See instructions here
Our vision about food
Read more about Hope's wider views on food here
Read more about the project here: Overview Q and A
Academic studies of food poverty and solutions can be found here
This is not a food bank. Its 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
The project is part of Northampton's Sustainable Food Strategy. Read about that here
Why we need a local sustainable food strategy
We are also members of the local Food poverty network under the aegis of End Hunger UK. They have a directory of alternative food aid in the county, available here
We are members of the Independent Food Aid Network. and an 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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