COMMUNITY FOOD MAP
We have displayed community food resources on a map so you can find out what’s going on near you.
Clicking on each point on the map gives you more information and contact details. You can view the map full-screen by clicking the box icon in the top right hand corner of the map. You can also choose which categories to display on the map by clicking the box icon in the top left hand corner (next to ‘CSF Food Projects new’ title), and then select which categories you’d like to display.
Categories include:
Food Banks. Resources both for those in need and those wanting to help. To claim food, a valid Foodbank voucher is normally needed.
Holiday Lunches. These take place in the holidays, providing free or cheap lunches for families who find providing for their children in the holidays challenging, particularly those normally eligible for free school lunches.
Community Meals. Providing meals for members of the community, sometimes as a means of using surplus food, sometimes as a social opportunity – or often both!
Meals for Older People. Providing sustenance and community for older people.
Community Allotments. Growing spaces where volunteers can come together to learn and produce fresh food.
Community Orchards. Sources of fresh fruit, maintained by volunteers from the community.
Retailers accepting Healthy Start vouchers. These can help pay for milk, fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables, fresh, dried, and tinned pulses, infant formula milk and vitamins. If you are pregnant or have a child under four years old then you could be entitled to these vouchers. To learn more about the vouchers and check eligibility, see The Healthy Start’s website.
Community Fridges. A public space where organisations and households can make perishable food that would have been wasted available to the local community. They are social spaces which help to reduce food waste, build trust locally and normalise the sharing of foods. Due to Coronavirus, locations and opening hours have changed. Please visit this page for further information. At this time we are only able to accept food donations from businesses and growers.
If you know of anything else that could be on the map, please do let us know!