Affordable Food Club
Affordable Food Clubs range from social supermarkets and pantries, to food buses and larders, at the heart of communities where people live and work. Each setting offers nutritious food and other essentials for a fraction of their retail value. In doing so, they enable people on low incomes to stretch their budgets further each week – helping to prevent financial crises which bring the need for food banks into play, and to provide stepping stones away from such crises.
Feeding Britain supports a growing national network of Affordable Food Clubs, and may have funding and resources to support your project. Contact info@feedingbritain.org to find out more
Below are some resources you may find useful when planning, setting up or running an Affordable Food Club. 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.
Feeding Britain Affordable Food Club Model Brochure July 2023.pdfFeeding Britain booklet of different Affordable Food Club models (July 2023)
Affordable Food Club Toolkit (Nov 2023).docx.pdfFeeding Britain toolkit for developing an Affordable Food Club (Nov 2023)
Mobile Affordable Food Projects Toolkit - Aug 2022.pdfFeeding Britain toolkit for developing a mobile Affordable Food Club (Aug 2022)
Feeding Britain case studies_ Foodbanks establishing affordable food clubs (March 2024).pdfFeeding Britain case studies: Foodbanks establishing affordable food clubs (March 2024)
Resources for planning your Affordable Food Club
Food Hubs - How to Guide - Feb 2023.pdfBassetlaw Food Insecurity Network - How to set up a Food Hub
Oasis - Pantry Project Plan template.xlsxOasis - Example Affordable Food Club Project Plan (Sept 2020)
Template budget.xlsxOasis - Example Affordable Food Club budget (Sept 2020)
Feeding Devon LLP RA May 2023.docFeeding Devon - Example Food Hubs risk assessment (July 2023)
Pantry Risk Assesment template.docxOasis - Example Affordable Food Club risk assessment (Sept 2020)
Blank Weekly records .xlsxOasis - Example weekly records (Sept 2020)
Membership documents
Member database.xlsxExample member database (July 2023)
Template pantry referral form.docxExample referral form (July 2023)
Plinth offers a free database system for the voluntary sector. This can be used to record service users and membership records for affordable food projects.
Marketing materials
Information about Feeding Devon food hubs.docxFeeding Devon - Information about affordable food hubs (July 2023)
Membership letter.docxFeeding Devon - Membership letter (July 2023)
EFP Healthy Start comms for partners.docxEastbourne FP - Healthy Start toolkit including comms materials (Aug 2023)
Use By Date and Best Before Date poster
Other models of affordable food provision
Fact-sheet-buying-group-Final.pdfTeignbridge CVS - Food co-ops and buying groups
Fact-sheet-solidarity-veg-boxes-Final.pdfTeignbridge CVS - Solidarity veg boxes
Other resources
Feeding Britain webinars
A transition from food bank to food club - reducing dependency on emergency provision (Jan 2024)
The Role of Housing Associations in tackling food insecurity (Dec 2023)
Addressing accessibility with mobile affordable food clubs (Oct 2023)
Accessing toiletries, household items and more through In Kind Direct (Oct 2023)
Collective food purchasing and warehousing (Sept 2023)
Foodbank to food club - using subsidies and vouchers to support people into food clubs (June 2023)
Foodbanks establishing Affordable Food Clubs (May 2023)
Offering expert advice and wraparound services alongside affordable food (April 2023)
Food cooperative models (Feb 2023)
Financial sustainability for Affordable Food Clubs (June 2022)
