The Food Store will now be accepting new registrations for new members!
The Food Store is a membership scheme that aims to provide food and associated support to people on very low or no income. It is based on the Food Pantry model, where service is accessed only via referrals from official support agencies. We have run the service since Nov 2021 in partnership with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Poplar HARCA and Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) and delivered by Burdett Football Club.
We are now on Year 2 of the scheme.
The service is located on a ground floor flat on the Burdett Estate – 25A Limborough House, Thomas Road, London E14 7AW . Burdett FC shares the space with WEN which runs food growing and cooking programmes and other food related services in the community garden and adjoining facilities.
On behalf of Burdett FC, I am I am writing to ask if you would like to be included as one of the referral agencies.
How It Works
Referral agency refers people who:
a) Are currently supporting residents to deal with financial difficulties
b) Hold information about household budgets (actual income and expenditure).
c) Agrees/consents for clients referral being made to the Food Store.
Membership Fees
This is a subsidised scheme that members pay to use, unlike food banks offering free food as handouts. Membership costs either £3.50 per week or £14 per month. In return members will get £30 worth of food plus available fruit and vegetables on top of that. Members will have greater choice than ordinary food banks.
Membership Requirements and Consent:
Members will be required to sign terms and conditions of use of the service and agree to access available support services such as welfare benefits advice and employment support to deal with the underlying issues, e.g. debt, housing, income maximisation. Membership will be reviewed quarterly to check progress and confirm member’s continued engagement with services. Members must consent to their information being shared at the point of referral with organisations providing support services as relevant to their need, including local welfare advice, relevant council teams and employments support service providers amongst others.
If your agency would like to register with the Food Store to be part of this service and refer people to us, please fill in the referral agency form and send it back to the Food Store via email below. Once registered and ready to refer people across, please fill in the following client referral form and send to us for onboarding. We would like to highlight that we have limited spaces over the year. For further details about the scheme and to join as a referral partner, please contact:
The Food Store Team
E: thefoodstoreburdett@outlook.com
T: 07930983651
