Food and Household Supplies

The resources on this site have been shared in good faith by projects and partners within the Feeding Britain network, to help save time and share practice.

All example documents will need to be reviewed and amended for your project before being used.

List of food suppliers (March 2023)

A list of food suppliers used across the Feeding Britain network (Nov 2024)

Good Food Supply Practices for Affordable Food Clubs (Jan 2025)

Feeding Britain - Supportive arrangements with local businesses (Oct 2023) .pdf

Examples of how local food businesses are supporting food projects (Oct 2023)

Sharing practice around food supplies (April 2023)

Food Suppliers

Ankose CIC

Collective purchasing and warehousing

Working with surplus redistribution organisations

Collecting and redistributing food

Examples of collection and redistribution organisations

WRAP resources

Gleaning

Linking Up Suppliers and Hubs

Growing activities in Affordable Food Clubs

Other resources

Food Suppliers

Good Food Supply Practices for Affordable Food Clubs (Jan 2025)

Culturally appropriate food for food clubs (Feb 2024)

St Chad’s Baby Milk Support.pdf

Case study: St Chads' voucher scheme to provide safe access to baby formula

Sharing practice around food supplies (July 2022)

Ankose CIC

Feeding Britain is working with a CIC called Ankose to broker discounted wholesale rates for projects within the Feeding Britain network. The price lists for projects within the Feeding Britain network are linked here. To order through Ankose, please get in touch with Rose Bray at rose.bray@feedingbritain.org.

Webinar recording: Ankose CIC: Brokering discounted food supplies for community food projects (Jan 2025)

Wholesale - SOS Wholesale Pricelist 14th January 2025.xlsx

Dairy - KDC Freshways price list - 27th Jan 2025.xlsx

SUMA - Mixed Pallet Pricing.xls

Fruit and veg - Nationwide Produce Price List 11-01-2025 (581208).xls

Exotic Fruit - Nationwide price list September 2024.docx

Herbs and spices - Green Cuisine - Price List 2024 GC BOXES.docx

Ankose meat list.xlsx

Morrisons own label price list .xlsx

UHT fruit juice - Mulrines UK Pricing 2025.pdf

Collective purchasing and warehousing

Collective food purchasing and warehousing (Sept 2023)

Abbreviated Cluster Fridge Pilot Report.pdf

Norfolk Cluster Fridge Pilot report

Working with surplus redistribution organisations

Introduction to Bankuet, the food donation platform (June 2024)

Accessing toiletries, household items and more through In Kind Direct (Oct 2023)

Collecting and redistributing food

Examples of collection and redistribution organisations

CropDrop | A project coordinating the redistribution of allotment produce to community organisations in Bath & North East Somerset

Gleaning Cornwall networkA Cornwall wide network of famers, volunteer gleaners and community food services working to salvage farm produce, tackling waste and food poverty

Oxford Food Hub (formerly Oxford Food Bank)Surplus food redistribution in Oxfordshire, redistributing surplus from wholesalers & supermarkets to charities & community organisations

Shrewsbury Food Hub | Reduce Food Waste, Save the EnvironmentShrewsbury Food Hub is a volunteer-powered charity that stops food waste to protect the environment and strengthen our community.

WRAP resources

Surplus food redistribution resource hubAll the information you need to help increase the redistribution of surplus food, in one place.

Surplus food redistribution labelling guidanceDate labels, storage advice and freezing for food safety This summary information produced by WRAP, the Food Standards Agency and Defra covers date labelling and storage instruction requirements for surplus food, in order for it to be safely redistributed. The aim is to increase the amount of food made available by food businesses for redistribution and accepted by recipient organisations.

Gleaning

The Gleaning Network has developed a toolkit for organisations that are looking to organise gleaning sessions.

Linking Up Suppliers and Hubs

LUSH: Linking Up Suppliers and HubsLUSH brings ecological and social value-based food suppliers together with food hubs with adjacent values to create a more resilient food system.

Real Farming Trust: Linking Up Suppliers and Hubs starter pack

Real Farming Trust: Linking Up Suppliers and Hubs case study

Growing activities in Affordable Food Clubs

Webinar recording: Growing activities alongside affordable food provision

Other resources

All Feeding Britain resources

Employment and volunteering

Policy and campaigns

Marketing materials

Affordable food clubs

Policies and procedures

Data collection

Food Networks and mapping

Wraparound support

Food safety and hygiene

Research, reports and evidence

Training

Recipes

Sustainability

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