Food resources and information
Emergency Food Response in Cambridge
Cambridge Sustainable Food coordinates emergency food provision efforts in the city in partnership with Cambridge Food Poverty Alliance. The Alliance represents over 25 organisations working on poverty alleviation in the city.
We are working together to ensure people have access to food during the cost of living crisis:
a signposting service for people in need of food. If you know someone who is struggling to afford food, please refer them to our online form.
establishing community food hubs around the city where people at risk of food poverty can access food for free.
making sure meals are delivered to those that need them including holiday lunch and holiday hunger provision.
We are accepting food donations from local businesses and growers to support the community food hubs. Some allotments in the city are growing extra this year to help with supporting the hubs. If you know an organisation with surplus food to spare, or you can encourage your local allotments to grow extra, please refer them to this form or ask them to contact us directly to donate.
And last but not least, if you have any ideas about food and resilience in your communities, or opportunities for the future, we would love to hear them!
By donating you can ensure that food gets to people who are in need
emergency food access
Find out how to access food and support, including community food hubs and food banks.
in need of some help?
If you or someone you know is in need of food, please complete this form.
Surplus Food
Are you a business with surplus food to donate to our emergency food programme?
volunteering
Find out how to volunteer for our emergency food programme during Covid-19
Support your local food businesses
Our local, independent food businesses need your custom more that ever!
Grow A Row to support the local cambridge community
Are you a local grower or allotment holder who could “Grow a Row” extra to help support Cambridge’s Emergency Food Response?
Community Food Donations
Locations of the Community Food Hub Donations points across Cambridge, how to donate to the Holiday Lunch programme, and a list of food items to donate.
