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Food Charities

  • Glasgow Community Food Network - Glasgow Community Food Network was established in 2017 to bring together practitioners and organisations in the private, public and third sectors along with other interested individuals to develop a flourishing food system in Glasgow.
  • Fareshare: Glasgow & West of Scotland - FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 17 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups.
  • Meals Collective (Twitter) - Meals Collective Glasgow is an non-profit organisation providing healthy comfort food and food parcels to those that need extra support during the COVID-19 crisis.
  • Three Hills Glasgow (Twitter, Facebook) - As a hub for the community, Threehills will operate as an affordable supermarket, café and advice hub. We aim to provide immediate financial relief for households on low incomes by improving their access to affordable nutritious food, while addressing some of the underlying issues which may have left individuals and families vulnerable to hunger.
  • North Glasgow Community Food Initiative - We work with communities to empower them to lead practical and sustainable food related activities that improve health and well-being and which support them to build stronger, more cohesive communities.
  • Eat Up Charity - Eat UP is a registered Scottish Charity (Charity No: SC048548) helping local people and their families struggling with food poverty. We provide a link between supermarkets and other sources of food to a number of local groups, churches and foodbanks.
  • Launch Foods - Launch Foods is a charity with a social conscience. We focus on maximising food surplus by feeding kids in our communities with free hot nutritious food after their school day and during holidays. Our food offer is open to all kids and served from American Airstream Rocket food trucks which the kids perceive as being cool, we think so too.

Social Enterprise Cafes

  • Spoon Trongate - Spoon Cafes are social enterprise sit in and taking away cafes offering external catering services, space hire for public and private events. We are proud to be a Social Enterprise. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated equally, to be valued and to be included.
  • Wild Olive Treet - The Wild Olive Tree is a social enterprise café, started in 2015 as a ministry of St. George’s Tron, in whose sanctuary the café sits.

Foodbanks

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