Affordable Food Clubs can include social supermarkets, pantries, larders, food buses and othe community-led initiatives which provide access to nutritious food for a fraction of what these items would cost in a regular supermarket. They enable people on low incomes to stretch their budgets further each week, helping to prevent crisis situations from arising in household finances which can bring the need for food banks into play. They also offer wraparound support to address the wider issues with which people may be struggling.
Feeding Britain have produced an updated toolkit for organisations seeking to get involved in developing these projects, which outlines some of the considerations for anyone developing an affordable food club.