Everybody should have access to good food. Your Local Pantries provide both – and more. Pantries are all about dignity, choice and hope. Each one operates as a member-led neighbourhood hub, often serving as a springboard to other community initiatives, opportunities and ideas.

A Pantry is:

• Member-run: Pantries operate along cooperative lines, and many volunteers are members too.
• Open to all: You don’t need a referral – anyone who lives in an area served by a Pantry can join.
• Long-lasting: You can join for as long as you want, and can choose to go every week or just occasionally.

Pantries stock an abundant and wide range of top-quality food including fresh fruit and veg, frozen and chilled food, meat and dairy products, and long-life tinned and packaged food.

Members pay a small subscription of a few pounds a week, and in return can choose groceries worth many times more, often saving up to £1,000 a year on shopping bills.

Pantries are just like a shop, in that you choose the food you want from the shelves.

Pantries are run by uniformed staff and volunteers who manage the stores with hand-held technology.

Each Pantry also has a cherished role as a neighbourhood hub, often serving as a springboard to other initiatives and ideas, such as cookery classes, volunteering opportunities, and training.

Pantries have been shown to:

• Strengthen communities
• Improve health and wellbeing
• Improve household finances
• Prevent waste
• Prevent hunger
• Build dignity and agency

For a small weekly subscription of £5.00, members at the Surrey Epsom Pantry will be able to purchase a weekly food shop including fresh fruit and vegetables and family favourites to stock up the cupboard and fridge.

Opening days and hours:

Monday: 11.00am – 1.00pm
Tuesday: 9:30am – 11:30am
Thursday: 10.00am – 12.00noon and 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Friday: 10.00am – 12.00noon